The heaviest baby ever born weighed 23lb 12oz in Canada in 1879, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. But the baby, whose mother Anna Bates had giantism, died 11 hours later. The record for the heaviest, healthy baby in the world was a boy born in Italy in 1955, who weighed 22lb 8oz.
Cancers of the mouth, throat, voice box, and esophagus: Alcohol use clearly raises the risk of these cancers. Drinking and smoking together raises the risk of these cancers far more than the effects of either drinking or smoking alone.
The commonest single cause of death in the alcohol excess group was ischaemic heart disease (n = 27 or 16.7%). In the alcohol excess group, âcoronary heart diseaseâ (i.e., Davies criteria 1, 2 and 3 deaths) accounted for 32 or 19.8% of deaths versus 408 or 36.1% of deaths in the group with no history of alcohol excess.