Ricky Junior Naputi (June 20, 1973 – November 10, 2012) was a
Guamanian
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man who apparently died from
overeating
Overeating occurs when an individual consumes more calories in relation to the energy that is expended via physical activity or expelled via excretion, leading to weight gain and often obesity. Overeating is the defining characteristic of bing ...
in his apartment in
Mangilao, Guam
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Cliffs lie along much of the village's shoreline provide dramatic views, includi ...
, at 39 years old. His weight had ballooned since he was a teenager, which was when he developed an
addiction to food, though he was an average-sized child. He weighed roughly 402 kg (900 lb) at his peak weight.
He was the focus of the
Channel 5 documentary ''The Man Who Ate Himself to Death'' and
TLC
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followed him for their documentary ''900 Pound Man: The Race Against Time''. That documentary suggests the possibility of either
suicide or foul-play as, when Cheryl, his wife, called emergency services, she said he'd taken some pills and wasn't breathing. In the documentary, she admits that she told him she was leaving him because she wasn't in love with him anymore, and he became very upset. Given his weight and inability to leave his bed, the question of how he got the pills exists, and those pills are potentially the actual cause of death.
See also
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List of the heaviest people
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Heaviest people ever recorded
See also
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References
1973 births
2012 deaths
Death from obesity
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