A seven-year-old boy who tips the scales at 19 stone has had 75 per cent of his stomach removed in a desperate attempt to halve his weight.
Muhammad Yousuf from Kasur in Punjab, Pakistan, weighs four times more than an average child of his age.
The youngster, who is thought to suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome which causes an insatiable appetite, underwent an operation last week after doctors assured his worried parents it would help him lose half his weight within a year.
His mother Rabia Faisal, 31, said: ‘We kept feeding him because we love him very much.’
Muhammad whose daily diet consisted of 10 chapattis, two litres of milk, three plates of rice, as well as chocolate and ice cream, will be put on a liquid diet for six weeks.
His parents claim Muhammad, who was healthy until three months old, cannot walk for more than a few minutes without getting out of breath and has been refused entry to schools because of his size.
