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Fattest Teenager Of The World

Georgia Davis weighs 210 kg at just 15 years of age, which makes her the world's fattest teenager.

Georgia began over-eating when she was five years old and her father had just died. She kept on stuffing her face and today she can't take more than 2 steps without having to stop and catch her breath. She can't sleep in a normal bed because, well she simply can't get in or out of it and she recently got banned from the school cafeteria for the simple reason that she just ate too much.

"It's like a drug. Some people choose heroin but I've chosen food and it's killing me. Doctors have told me I could drop dead at any moment." says Georgia Davis. To prevent this the 15-year-old will have to take a trip to the US and join a fat-camp and attempt to loose over 100 kg in six months.

Georgia's daily diet includes 2 loafs of bread, an entire chocolate cake, 2 plates of chips, 7 sandwiches, a gallon of soda, lasagna and many more. Her calorie intake is 14,000 calories a day while a normal 15 year-old takes in 2000 calories.

The doctor said,"Although food is like a drug for Georgia I think it's the parent's fault. They should stop feeding their daughter or she won't last much longer".Because of the excessive weight her hearth can stop at any moment. A few months ago she developed 2 kind of diabetes.

2,000-year-old Brain Found in Britain

Scientists find 2,000-year-old brain in Britain. British archaeologists have unearthed an ancient skull carrying a startling surprise ? an unusually well-preserved brain.

One expert unconnected with the find called it "a real freak of preservation."The skull was severed from its owner sometime before the Roman invasion of Britain and found in a muddy pit during a dig at the University of York in northern England this fall, according to Richard Hall, a director of York Archaeological Trust.

Finds officer Rachel Cubbitt realized the skull might contain a brain when she felt something move inside the cranium as she was cleaning it, Hall said. She looked through the skull's base and spotted an unusual yellow substance inside. Scans at York Hospital confirmed the presence of brain tissue.

Hall said it was unclear just how much of the brain had survived, saying the tissue had apparently contracted over the years. Parts of the brain have been tentatively identified, but more research was needed, he said.He said it was a mystery why the skull was buried separately from its body, suggesting human sacrifice and ritual burial as possible explanations.

The existence of a brain where no other soft tissues have survived is extremely rare, according to Sonia O'Connor, an archaeological researcher at the University of Bradford in northern England who helped authenticate the discovery."This brain is particularly exciting because it is very well preserved, even though it is the oldest recorded find of this type in the U.K., and one of the earliest worldwide," she said.

The old brain is unlikely to yield new neurological insights because human brains aren't thought to have changed much over the past 2,000 years, according to Chris Gosden, a professor of archaeology at Oxford University unconnected with the find.He confirmed it was the oldest brain found in Britain.

He noted that far older preserved brains, thought to be approximately 8,000 years old, were found in 1986 when dozens of intact human skulls were uncovered buried in a peat bog in Windover Farms in Florida."It's a real freak of preservation to have a brain and nothing else," Gosden said.

"The fact that there's any brain there at all is quite amazing."Hall said the brain found at York University was being kept in its skull in an environmentally controlled storage facility for further study.