Michel Lotito
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Michel Lotito (born June 15, 1950) is a French entertainer. Lotito, who was born in Grenoble, is famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-everything).
Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966.
Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intentine with walls of twice the expected thickness, his digestive acids are allegedly unusually powerful allowing him to digest a certain portion of his metallic meals.
External links
- June 12, 1998 CNN article (http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9806/11/fringe.mr.eat.everything/)
- Guinness World Records blurb (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=48511)fr:Monsieur Mangetout