German Man Suffering From Incurable Hunger

A German man has been dubbed "the man with the bottomless stomach" as he consumes over 12,000 calories a day without gaining an ounce in weight.

Heinz Asthoff says he's been struck with an incurable hunger following the death of his wife 22 years ago. His incredible ability to eat endlessy without getting fat has been the subject of scientific studies and he's also been featured on a TV program in the country.

Heinz says on any given day he will eat a 2.2lb chunk of leberkase meat loaf, 5lb of potatoes, a dozen eggs, a pint of mayonnaise, pizzas, chips and sometimes as many as 20 meat patties.

He's even been advised by his doctors not to give up his 40-a-day smoking habit because he would eat more.

The trouble is that the 68-year-old is spending more on food than he has pension money.

"Nothing I eat makes me satisfied and I don't put weight on. I can't eat out anymore. Last time I went to a pub I ordered a potato pancake and ended up eating 100 of them. I can't afford it," he says. "My doctors say my stomach is like the mine I worked down for 36 years � black and bottomless."

He is nearly six feet tall, weighs 210 pounds and Doctors confess that they have no idea why his metabolism demands so much food.

After eating a 2lb chunk of meat he is hungry again 15 minutes later but tries to slow down his eating by smoking more.

After he lost his wife to cancer 22 years ago to cancer, the event triggered his bizarre eating syndrome.

"Nothing satisfies me, nothing. I never feel full."

His doctor Henning Huesch says: "He does not have especially high cholesterol, is not physically ill through eating, but it clearly addicted to it."

Heinz is set to undergo more tests at a university clinic next month.

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