Re: Have You Tried This? I Am Shocked!
Originally Posted by
Artangel
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The Tapeworm Diet
Quote......The tapeworm diet works by swallowing a pill that has a tapeworm egg inside. When the egg eventually hatches, the tapeworm will grow inside your body and eat whatever you're eating. The idea is that you can eat whatever you want and still lose weight because the tapeworm is eating all your “extra” calories.
I thought my daughter was joking when she told me what some people do to lose weight!
As she told me, l felt sick.... who in their right mind would eat a worm egg tablet to lose weight?
Have you heard of this method to lose weight, or know anyone who has??
It was reportedly an old fashioned way to stay slim back in the day. When I was a kid I remember my grandmother saying "Have you got a ruddy tapeworm" when she thought I was overeating.
It was (theoretically, but not proven) a fad amongst Victorian women, but the pill may just have been fake - a placebo for people desperate to lose weight. They say there is little evidence anyone deliberately had a tapeworm inside them, though of course food back then may well have had an egg or two in there somewhere.
These days, with the amount of total idiots who use the Internet because they're stupid, the consequences are we get articles like this. Maybe we're breeding for Stupidity now!
https://www.today.com/health/iowa-wo...ing-6C10935746