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The man who can't get fat
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4-11-2008 11:14 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06e8d071-74ef-40bb-9edd-81b20c025a8e/48CABE03-517D-4E31-964C-B439FA996FC1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><H1>The man who can't get fat</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><P class="story2">Millions of dieters would give their right arm to be afflicted by the illness that is plaguing John Perry.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><P class="story2">Mr Perry, 59, can eat whatever he likes - including unlimited pies, burgers and desserts - and never get fat.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><P class="story2"><DIV>He cannot put on weight because of a condition called lipodystrophy that makes his body rapidly burn fat. </DIV><BR /><DIV>Mr Perry regularly eats Chinese takeaways, chips, chocolate and clotted cream, but his weight has remained stable at 11st 12lb. </DIV><BR /><DIV>He told the Sun that he used to be a chubby child, but at age 12 the fat dropped off "almost over night". </DIV><BR />Doctors thought he was refusing to eat or had a stomach ulcer, he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><P class="story2">He initially tried to eat more to gain weight, but it had no effect.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><P class="story2"> “I didn’t like being slim at first. As a teenager playing football I was so thin I got embarrassed taking my shirt off," he said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nfat110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox"><P class="story2">“I used to eat loads of chocolate to try and put on weight but I couldn’t.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/48CABE03-517D-4E31-964C-B439FA996FC1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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