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Ubaldo Alexis Garcia Lopez, a 14-year-old Mexican boy, watches television with his mother in the bedroom they share at their home in Iztapalapa, one of poorest neighborhoods in Mexico City, Mexico on June 25, 2015. Ubaldo weighs 190 pounds and is 176 centimeters tall. In 2011, Ubaldo weighed 169 pounds and was 145 centimeters tall, with a BMI of 36,5. He was close to death due to a number of diseases related to morbid obesity and was admitted at the emergency room of the Federico Gomez Children's Hospital in Mexico City, where he was diagnosed with chronic severe obstructive sleep apnea, hypopnea, Metabolic Syndrome X, and acanthosis nigricans. Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus