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In suburban Atlanta, things changed fast. The new foods were cheap, unhealthy and hard to resist: toaster waffles, corn dogs and the chocolate syrup Adrian liked so much he guzzled it straight from the bottle and just ate and ate and ate until he weighed 500 pounds and had borderline or moderate mental deficiency at age 7 years. “They used to make fun of me at school, hurling water balloons at me from the back of the cafetorium of the elementary school,” Adrian says, “so I sat on them until inspiration hatched.”