Okay, how about if Jeanette locked him up in an elephant cage, and gave him through the bars only one bowl of gruel a day?
That sounds grossly inhumane, and something one wouldn't do excepting under the most dire of circumstances--so as to save someone's life, just as the subway cat's sometimes put into restraints--but whatever else can one possibly do?
The guy's a clear-cut case of Erysichthonism.