The comments here following the report are interesting and raise many points we all face.

There are obvious questions about this individual. While the article lacks specifics, it does help raise general awareness of the difficulties of altering our eating behavior.

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So I just caught this clip on CNN and then I realized that I saw something about it here on BP so I had to come and add in my 2 cents.

What is disturbing to me is that the father, or the reporter or who ever took the time to tell this story as tragic as it is...is not doing anything to help this man.

I agree with the hospital. He was there for 80 days and lost only 20 pounds which leads me to believe that he was somehow getting food that was not on the plan for him. Whether it was his father, friends or himself sneaking it to him staying there for longer was not going to help him.

I understand addiction all too well, as I'm sure many of us on the site might attest to, and may have even our own struggles with addiction when it comes to food. You really have to help yourself to overcome it. No one can do it for you, having support of medical staff is a plus not everyone is lucky enough to have.

Now this man is in the back of his Dad's SUV...is he living there or with his Dad now? It doesn't matter he obviously can't move on his own...and though it sounds "cruel" I would keep him on the meal plan that the hospital had him on. Those around him are enabling him. It's not as though he is mobile and going to get the pizza or what have you and if he was it would not be that big of a story (no pun intended).

As a parent I have had to show my children tough love because of addiction and NO it's not easy, but it is worth their lives.

You make some excellent points lisacaron....

Whatever malignant power is ruling his life, must also have an awful effect on those around him supporting his voyage into the 800# hell he has come to inhabit.