If you're too fat to fit in the MRI machine at the hospital, there is only one MRI bigger—the one for orcas at Sea World!

If you're too fat to fit in the MRI machine at the hospital, there is only one MRI bigger—the one for orcas at Sea World!

What's more embarrassing than being told you're too fat for something? Being accepted where whales go. If you're too fat to fit in a hospital's MRI scanner are referred to the local zoo or Sea World. Now that should be a wake-up call.


In order to get the proper care, overweight patients need to to go to facilities that accommodate large mammals, like the whales of Sea World. So what's the going rate for someone that is "too fat"? About 500 pounds and over.


Don't let the humiliation stop you from getting the care you need, getting scanned is a serious step that needs to be taken to be properly diagnosed. A German man died because he refused the zoo treatment to spare his family the grueling embarrassment.


The person with the largest BMI was Rosalie Bradford of the United States. She was 5ft 7in tall with a peak weight was 1,199 pounds. That's a peak BMI of 190. She also holds the Guinness World Record for the most weight lost by a woman: 917 pounds.


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