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The Man Who Can't Get Fat
 Mr Perry, 59, can eat whatever he likes - including unlimited pies, burgers and
desserts - and never get fat.
He cannot put on weight because of a condition
called lipodystrophy that makes his body rapidly burn fat.
He used to be a chubby child, but at age 12 the fat dropped off "almost over
night". He initially tried to eat more to gain weight, but it had no effect. Mr
Perry, of Ilford in Essex, endured a decade of tests before the illness was
diagnosed. It finally emerged that his body produces six times the normal level
of insulin. Doctors have admitted that the condition would be a "slimmer's
dream".
The Man Who Doesn't Feel Cold
Dutchman Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, is the man that swam under ice, and
stood in bins filled with ice. He climbed the Mt. Blanc in shorts in the icy
cold, harvested world records and always stands for new challenges.
Scientists can't really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to
withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average
person.
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep: stayed awake 24 hours a day
for years.
Rhett Lamb is often cranky like any other 3-year-old toddler, but there's one
thing that makes him completely different: he has a rare medical condition in
which he can't sleep a wink.
Rhett is awake nearly 24 hours a day, and his condition has baffled his parents
and doctors for years. They took clock shifts watching his every sleep-deprived
mood to determine what ailed the young boy.
After a number of conflicting opinions, Shannon and David Lamb finally learned
what was wrong with their child: Doctors diagnosed Rhett with an extremely rare
condition called chiari malformation.
"The brain literally is squeezed into the spinal column. What happens is you get
compression, squeezing, strangulating of the brain stem, which has all the vital
functions that control sleep, speech, our cranial nerves, our circulatory
system, even our breathing system," Savard said.
The Girl Who is Allergic to Water.
Teenager Ashleigh Morris can't go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower
after a stressful day's work - she's allergic to water. Even sweating brings the
19-year-old out in a painful rash.
Ashleigh, from Melbourne, Australia, is allergic to water of any temperature, a
condition she's lived with since she was 14. She suffers from an extremely rare
skin disorder called Aquagenic Urticaria - so unusual that only a handful of
cases are documented worldwide.
The Woman Who Can't Forget.
That's the story of AJ, an extraordinary 40-year-old married woman who remembers
everything.
McGaugh and fellow UCI researchers Larry Cahill and Elizabeth Parker have been
studying the extraordinary case of a person who has "nonstop, uncontrollable and
automatic" memory of her personal history and countless public events. If you
randomly pick a date from the past 25 years and ask her about it, she'll usually
provide elaborate, verifiable details about what happened to her that day and if
there were any significant news events on topics that interested her. She
usually also recalls what day of the week it was and what the weather was like.
The 40-year-old woman, who was given the code name AJ to protect her privacy, is
so unusual that UCI coined a name for her condition in a recent issue of the
journal Neurocase: hyperthymestic syndrome.
The Girl Who Eats Only Tic Tacs.
eet Natalie Cooper, a 17-year-old teenager who has a mystery illness that makes
her sick every time she eats anything. Well, almost anything. She can eat one
thing that doesn't make her sick: Tic tac mint!
For reasons that doctors are unable to explain, Tic tacs are the only thing she
can stomach, meaning she has to get the rest of her sustenance from a specially
formulated feed through a tube.
The Musician Who Can't Stop Hiccupping.
Chris Sands, 24, from Lincoln, hiccups as often as every two seconds - and
sometimes even when he is asleep. He has tried a variety of cures, including
hypnosis and yoga, but nothing has worked. Mr Sands thinks his problem stems
from an acid reflux condition caused by a damaged valve in his stomach. "If the
acid levels are severe enough they are going to do keyhole surgery and grab part
of my stomach and wrap it around the valve to tighten it," he said.
Mr Sands, who is a backing singer in the group Ebullient, said the condition has
hampered his career as he has only been able to perform four times. In the next
couple of weeks --as of the day of the report--, doctors at Nottingham's Queen's
Medical Centre will put a tube into his stomach to monitor acid levels and
decide if keyhole surgery is possible.
The Girl That Collapses Every Time She Laughs.
Kay Underwood, 20, has cataplexy, which means that almost any sort of strong
emotion triggers a dramatic weakening of her muscles. Exhilaration, anger, fear,
surprise, awe and even embarrassment can also cause sufferers to suddenly
collapse on the spot.
Kay, of Barrow-upon- Soar, Leicestershire (UK), who was diagnosed with the
condition five years ago, once collapsed more than 40 times in a single day. She
said: "People find it very odd when it happens, and it isn't always easy to cope
with strangers' reactions. "
Like most cataplexy sufferers, Ms Underwood is also battling narcolepsy - a
condition that makes her drop off to sleep without warning. Narcolepsy affects
around 30,000 people in the UK and about 70 per cent of them also have
cataplexy.
The Woman Who is Allergic to Modern Technology.
For most people talking on a mobile phone, cooking dinner in the microwave or
driving in a car is simply part of modern living in 21st century Britain. But
completing any such tasks is impossible for Debbie Bird - because she is
allergic to Cell Phones and Microwaves.
The 39-year-old is so sensitive to the electromagnetic field (emf) or 'smog'
created by computers, mobile phones, microwave ovens and even some cars, that
she develops a painful skin rash and her eyelids swell to three times their size
if she goes near them. As a consequence, Mrs Bird, a health spa manager, has
transformed her home into an EMF-free zone to try and stay healthy. 'I can no
longer do things that I used to take for granted,' Mrs Bird said. "My day-to-day
life has been seriously affected by EMF"..
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this is just unbelievable. may they find a way to relax and not be depressed with their health issues, hope they will find a solution soon. 
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