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AT a massive 73-stone, Kenneth Brumley must lose weight, or die.
His daily intake of 30,000 calories is the same as a regular-sized man eats in two weeks.
For four years he's been confined to a bed which buckled under his weight and powerless to move his gigantic legs.
Only deliveries of fast food from his partner Serena break the monotony of the day.
Because of this weakness for junk food, Kenneth is among two million Americans who are over 40-stone, and classed as super morbidly obese.
Kenneth, 40, from Texas, says: "I got into this shape over the last seven years.
"They've been the worst of my life.


"It is like I'm a prisoner to myself.
"I just sit here, watch TV and eat.
"That's all I do, every day."
The volume of food Kenneth consumes is truly shocking.
He says: "I'd wake up and get chili cheese fries for breakfast.
"It's basically fast food 24 hours a day, seven days a week
"That and a case of super-strength lager.
"At my heaviest I ate three or four cheeseburgers at a time, maybe a half gallon of orange juice or apple juice.
"Two litre bottles of soda would last about 30 minutes.
"If I feel like Chinese, McDonalds or Mexican, that's what I get."
' I don't know if it's an addiction. But once that weight gets on you, it's hard getting it off '
Amazingly, Kenneth, a dad-of-four, used to be a sports fanatic.
But his weight problem started at 19, when he temporarily moved to California from Texas.
He says: "I was constantly playing basketball, baseball, football.
"I ate a lot when I was a child, a whole lot. "But I burnt all that off with the activities I was doing.
"In California the lifestyle wasn't good.
"When I got there I didn't know anybody and all the sports I was doing stopped.
"So many times I went to buy new pants and would have to return two weeks later for a bigger size.
"I was just picking up the weight unbelievably quickly.
' The weight stopped me enjoying life with my kids. I've missed most of their young lives
"I don't know if it's an addiction. But once that weight gets on you, it's hard getting it off."
Unsurprisingly, Kenneth's had little success with fad diets.

But gastric bypass surgery, to reduce the size of his stomach, could be the answer.
He says: "I've tried low calorie, low carbs and the Greek food diet.
"I did what exercise I could from my bed, but you lose 20 to 30 pounds, and that's it.
"Then you gain it back twice more.
"I'd like to have a gastric bypass because I think that would be a big help and would change my life.
"There is no way I'm going to improve like this."
Massive problem ... fire crews attempt to get Kenneth out of bed
After being accepted as a gastric bypass patient at the prestigious Renaissance Hospital in Houston, a fire crew had to hammer down a wall in Kenneth's house to get him out.
As their biggest ever patient, before he could undergo surgery he had 15-stone of fatty tumours cut away from his body.
Meanwhile his diet was reduced from 30,000 calories a day to just 1,200.
Despite the horrendous effort required to shrink his size, Kenneth remains determined to succeed.

He says: "It might take a few months but I'm going to be back on my feet.

"It's been a long time since I had fresh air.

"I'm looking forward to being outside.

"The weight also stopped me enjoying life with my kids.

"I've missed most of their young lives, so now they're young ladies.

"It won't be long before they're getting married.

"I want to be sure I'm walking with them proudly down the aisle."



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Here is a list of ten longest bridges in the world with picture and description.

10. Seven Mile Bridge


The Seven Mile Bridge, in the Florida Keys, runs over a channel between the Gulf Of Mexico and the Florida Strait, connecting Key Va ca (the location of the city of marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is one of the many bridges on US in the Keys, where the road is called the Overseas Highway.

9. San Mateo - Hayward Bridge


The San Mateo - Hayward Bridge (commonly called San Mateo Bridge) is a bridge crossing California's San Fransisco Bay in the US, linking the San Fransisco Peninsula with the East Bay. More specifically, the bridge's western end is in Foster City, the must record urban addition to the eastern edge of San Mateo. The eastern end of the bridge is in Hayward. The bridge is owned by the state of California, and is maintained by Caltrans, the state Highway agency.

8. Confederation Bridge

The Confederation Bridge (French : Pont de la confederation) is a bridge spanning the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada. It was commonly referred to as the "Fixed Link" by residents of Prince Edward Island prior to its officials naming. Construction took place from the fall of 1993 to the spring of 1997, costing $ 1,3 billion. The 12,9 - kilometre (8 mi) long bridge opened on 31 May 1997.

7. Rio - Niteroi Bridge..... To be continued....

More precisely, it's about biblical antiquities and how they can be seen to prove that the stories told in the Bible really happened. Five-and-a-half years ago the world of biblical archaeology was rocked to its foundations, and all because of a box. It was a stone box - called an "ossuary" - that had been discovered in Israel. Ossuaries were used to hold the bones of the dead some 2,000 years ago, in the time of Jesus. And this ossuary was said hold the bones of Jesus' brother, James. As correspondent Bob Simon reports, the discovery created more excitement among Christian scholars than anything since the Shroud of Turin. And like the shroud, no sooner was it unveiled that charges of forgery surfaced. In fact, a trial has been underway in Jerusalem for almost three years. The box is made of limestone. It's not terribly large, but it attracted a very large crowd, over a 100,000, when it was first exhibited. It made the New York Times and the cover of Biblical Archaeology Review. New Testament scholar Ben Witherington, who wrote a book about the box, was at that first exhibit. "There was a lot of excitement. There was, you know, the atmosphere was kind of palpable really. And there were various of us just sort of buzzing around this exhibit," he remembers. Actually, ossuaries are quite common. The Israel Antiquities Authority keeps hundreds in its basement. What was so special about this one was the mysterious engraving on its side, sort of a Da Vinci Code in stone. It's written in ancient Aramaic and it reads "James, Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus. (source : CBS News)

Scientists have been intrigued by the moon since the fountain of water was first spotted in 2005. Now they've identified a soup of prebiotic material there, similar to what's found in comets, from an analysis of data collected by the Cassini spacecraft. Nobody really knows how life began, but astrobiologists guess it required chemicals like those tasted by Cassini, a little liquid water and some unknown spark. Hunter Waite, a Cassini principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) in San Antonio, said Enceladus' newly understood composition should stir up previous notions of Saturn and its moons. "These findings will definitely get people to ask new questions about the formation of the Saturn system," Wait told SPACE.com. "The astrobiological potential of the Saturn system just went up a notch or two." Cassini made its observations during a high-speed pass 30 miles (48 km) above Enceladus on March 12, and recorded the highest temperatures yet detected near tiger stripe-like fissures on the icy moon's southern pole. (source : LiveScience)