When losing weight matters

It may take months before a passage is drilled to trapped Chilean miners, but some may have to wait even longer than that to come out:

To rescue the trapped miners, workers will try to dig a wider 27-inch shaft directly to the men. The men would be raised up one at a time. Two of the miners, however, are obese and it's not clear how they will fit. Rescuers hope the men will lose weight in the mine to fit through the hole.