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Fitness Center Seeking Xinjiang's Fattest
A fitness center is trying hard to find the most obese person in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, claiming that it will help reduce his weight to normal levels, according to the Xinjiang Metropolis Daily.

The weight of adults in Xinjiang is higher than the nation's average, with men about 12.5 kg higher, and women about 2.5 kg higher.

The fitness center from Tianjin boasted that they would sign a contract with the person, and bring down his weight to a healthy level, regardless of the cause of the obesity.

"After he succeeds in losing weight," the head of the center said,"we would like him to be a fitness spokesman for us."

A hospital once succeeded in bringing down the weight of Liang Yong, the so-called China's fattest man, from 207 kg to 120 kg.

Liang from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, used to be too fat to touch his back while taking a bath.

The record was broken shortly after by a young man from Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, whose weight was brought down from 265 kg to 90 kg after a special treatment over one year and three months.

(China Daily July 15, 2002)

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