Introduction
It has been more than one year since my
last post on this blog. (My last blog post was on 2nd August
2011.) Until I read the story in the Huffington Post, I didn’t think that my
first post on this blog would be commenting on bizarre news.
The story of Pauline Potter was
reported in the Huffington Post under the “Bizarre News” section. Bizarre news
mean’s something strange but true. Well, almost everyone, this news is taken
very seriously but not strange because it reinforces their belief that obesity
is caused by overeating. This is the reason that I have found important enough
to discuss on my Blog.
The first
story is reported in the Huffington Post in June 2011.
And the
second story is reported in the Huffington Post in July 2012.
On the GuinnessWorld Records online, there is a post from September 14th, 2011, saying, “The 47-year-old from
Sacramento, California has been confirmed as weighing 291.6 kg (643 lbs.) by
Guinness World Records™.
Reading
those two stories, I came to the conclusion that something was wrong. Something makes me think that she (Pauline
Porter), who is regarded by almost everyone as the “World’s heaviest woman”,
doesn’t exist.
According
to the media, she has contacted Guinness World Records, but there is no mention
that anyone from Guinness World Records contacted her in person. This leads me to
the conclusion that she is crowned as the heaviest woman on Earth by Guinness
World Records with just one phone call. It seems to me that the credibility of Guinness
World Records is questionable, but that is another subject.
One more thing
is that on the 18th of August 2011, just a few weeks before Pauline Potter was
accepted by Guinness World Records as the heaviest woman in the world, the Sun
and other media reported the story about Susanne Eman, “World's fattest woman at52 STONE scoffs more than 20,000 calories a day” published in the Sun 18thAugust 2011. (52 Stone = 728 lbs.)
If it is true
that Susanne Eman weighs 728lbs, then how is it that Pauline Potter, who
weighs 643 lbs., 85lbs less than Susanne Eman, is crowned as the heaviest woman
in the world by Guinness World Records. This is another fact that seriously
undermines the credibility of Guinness World Records. But as I said before,
that is another subject because this post is not to be concerned about Guinness World Records' credibility.
I tried to
find something on Wikipedia,” List of the heaviest people”, but there is nothing
about Pauline Potter or Susanne Eman.
It seems to
me that the story about Susanne Eman, “World's fattest woman at 52 STONE scoffs
more than 20,000 calories a day”, published in the Sun on 18th August
and
many other newspapers, are a hoax.
Side note: If you take a closer look at the
picture of Pauline Potter and the picture of Susanne Eman, you may find plenty of similarities between the two, but you will hardly find anything similar to them real
obese people.
According
to the media, Pauline Potter eats 10,000 calories daily, and Susanne Eman eats 20,000 calories daily. Almost everyone
believes, and no one thinks it is necessary to prove whether it is possible to eat an amount of food containing 20,000 or even 10,000 calories daily.
The story
about women eating 20,000 calories a day, among other media, is published on Opposing View's website. People from
Opposing Views are opposed to many views, but they do not oppose the belief
that obese people can eat 20,000 calories, and it is not expected from them to
oppose the belief that obese people eat 30,000 calories a day or 40,000
calories a day. Also, it is not expected from people on the Opposing View website or from the general population, including university professors involved in the
research of obesity, to oppose any possible claim that obese people eat 100,000
calories a day.
The story
about “Pauline Potter Crowned Guinness World Records' Heaviest Woman” is very
likely invented by someone to make money and/or strengthen the belief that severe obesity is caused by overeating.
The story
in the Daily Mail from 22 November 2011 strengthens my belief that it is
invented to strengthen the belief that obese people are obese
because they eat too much.
According to
the article published in the Huffington Post by pop culture journalist DavidMoyes, “Potter's amazing story will be featured in the 2012 Guinness World
Records, which will be released Sept. 15th. The new book will feature a section
on Extreme Beauty."
The second story
published in the Huffington Post and many other media, “Pauline Potter Weight Loss: World's Heaviest Woman Loses 98 Pounds
With Marathon Sex”, is very likely invented to reduce attention on the
claims that she will be featured in the 2012 Guinness World Records, which will
be released Sept. 15th. Claiming that
she lost 98 pounds makes everyone think that she doesn’t regard herself as the
world's heaviest woman, which will consequently lead to no one being interested
to examine the trustworthiness of the claim that she will be featured in the
2012 Guinness World Records..
Well, the
Sept 15th 2012, is around the corner. Let's see if “Potter's Amazing Story” will
be featured in the 2012 Guinness World Records. Maybe they already have an
excuse that she wouldn’t be featured in the Guinness Book of Records because the
20012 edition wouldn’t have “The Section on Extreme
Beauty”. As I said, Sept 15th 2012, is around the corner. Let's see if I am wrong.
Side note: According to Wikipedia, “The next
book to be released, Guinness World Records 2013, is scheduled to be released
on 11th September 2012.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records
There are
plenty of people who express concern for Pauline Porter, like on this blog (suethsayings), but no one expresses the
concern about how this story will make it a more miserable life for millions of people,
including millions of children.
I’m not
sure, but I think that someone was inspired by the American comedy film “ Norbit” directed by Brian Robbins (stars
Eddie Murphy and Thandie Newton in 2007). It seems that the character Rasputia from Norbit had given the Idea for the
fictional Pauline Porter.
In the
movie, Rasputia and Norbit are played by Edie Murphy. If the story of Pauline Potter is invented, it will be interesting to know who played “The world women” and who played the world’s heaviest woman
in Dr Phil and Dr Oz's show.
For Dr Oz,
Dr Phil and most other people, it is much more comfortable to talk about
extremely rare cases of people who don’t care, or at least they publicly
pretend not to care about their weight, but it is not comfortable to talk about
the vast majority of obese people who
try everything to lose weight, but still, they remain obese despite following
all advice about weight loss, they continue to further gain weight.)
I hope that
some serious journalists will do some investigations and prove or very likely
disprove the truthfulness of these stories.
Even though there are many other things that lead me to be suspicious in the
stories about Pauline Potter and Susanne Eman, there is still a possibility
that I may be wrong.
In the case
that I am wrong, I will ask everybody to accept my apology. Let's see what the
response will be of Dr Oz, Dr Phil and many journalists, bloggers, etc. who are
responsible for the publicity of stories about Pauline Potter and Susanne Eman,
in case I am right.
From journalists
and the world’s most renowned university professors involved in obesity, there
is no apology when they are wrong about the cause of obesity or about their
treatments for obesity. They can come up with any theory about the cause or
solution for obesity with impunity. It doesn’t matter how their theories make the lives of so many people more miserable. I think that, if not all, many
university professors have realised that their belief and their theories
(anabolism, catabolism, Krebs cycle etc.), which is based on their belief about
the causes of weight gain and weight loss, are created because they didn’t know
that human body excrete calories. (Before I published work about “counting calories” and “Energy Balancer”, people involved in the weight loss industry believed that every calorie in food intake, if not spent through basal metabolism or through physical activity, would be stored as body fat.)
The
theories known as anabolism and catabolism are clear examples of not knowing
that the human body excrete some energy in food intake as metabolic
waste. The fact that the human body excretes some amount of energy in food intake
as metabolic waste makes “Anabolism” and “Catabolism” theories a
pseudoscience.
Only in the
section of bizarre news is the credibility of these sources hard to prove; there is evidence to support the credibility of the established science of weight
gain and weight loss.
In real life, there is no evidence that the
established science of weight gain and weight loss works.
