At the tender young age of 22 years old, Salvador Camacho, an engineering student in Mexico, thought he was going to die. Parked near his home in the central Mexican city of Toluca, Camacho and a friend were sitting in his father’s Chrysler sedan listening to music when two gang members approached and pointed guns at the young men. Being of solid build, Camacho was singled out as the more troublesome of the two, and so he was blindfolded and beaten, thrown to the ground with a gun held to the back of his head, and told it was time to die. He awoke in a field, almost naked, with his hands tied behind his back. Camacho survived the ordeal, but he didn’t come out unscathed, sinking into a deep depression that led to heavy drinking and overeating. The once trim Camacho ballooned from a 70kg man to one of 103kg, with a height to his weight ratio of 35.6, well above the 30 mark that most doctors define as clinically obese.
Eight years later, Camacho again thought he was going to die. He remembers waking up to bright lights as he was wheeled into a hospital emergency room on a stretcher; he had suffered a severe attack of arrhythmia, and cardiologists told him that if he didn’t lose weight and take better care of himself, he would surely die within five years. Despite years of diet and exercise advice from doctors, Camacho couldn’t keep off any weight he had lost until he started doing his own research which contributed to a reevaluation of how we think about calories. Thanks to his new diet and exercise routine, he pulled through and is doing better than ever.
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