At the age of 9, Lotito reportedly began eating glass and metal — a habit that would continue throughout the course of his lifetime. Guinness World Records, which designated the French man as having the “strangest diet” on record, wrote that Lotito became aware of his ability when “a glass from which he was drinking, broke and he began chewing the fragments.”
Perhaps the strangest object that Lotito said he consumed was a Cessna 150 airplane that he claimed to have started eating in 1978, swallowing the aircraft bite-by-bite until 1980.
“Monsieur Mangetout,” as he was popularly known (“Mr. Eat-All” in English), had a diet that was said to have included, over the course of his life, “8 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, seven TV sets, six chandeliers, two beds, a pair of skis, a low-calorie Cessna light aircraft and a computer.” He is also credited with being the only known person to consume a coffin, handles and all.Lotito currently holds the Guinness World Records title for the Strangest Diet,he had been eating metal and glass since 1959.” Gastroenterologists who X-rayed Lotito’s stomach said he was capable of consuming 2 pounds per day, according to his Guinness World Records entry. However, the spokesperson was unable to provide a record of the supposed x-ray and we were not able to independently verify whether such a report existed.
Lotito claimed not to suffer ill effects from his consumption of substances typically considered poisonous. When performing, he ingested approximately 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the meal. It is estimated that between 1959 and 1997, Lotito "had eaten nearly nine tons of metal."
Lotito's method for eating all of this metal was to break it into small pieces before attempting to eat it. He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits. This acted as a lubricant to help the metal slide down his throat. Lotito had no problem "passing" his unusual diet.
Lotito died of natural causes in 2007, but before his death, he was given a brass plaque by the Guinness Book of World Records, which the flight school Academy of Aviation noted he also ate.
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