Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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On the Tapeworm Diet
I got the following question:
"I wonder how could my friend, she eats so much yet stays thin... I don't understand that... She told me that there are many worms in her stomach, lol... What do u think?"
Your friend could just genetically have a higher metabolism than most people. Everybody is different. But a taller person can burn more calories per day than a shorter person, even if they are both the same weight.It is a possibility that your friend may have tapeworms in her body. If she truly suspects that she has a tapeworm infection, then she should really see a doctor and get some medication to eliminate the worms.
Contaminated foods or undercooked pork can have parasitic eggs. If you consume these eggs, then tapeworms will grow in your body (particularly in the intestine). The worms eat away the food you eat. Some people think this is a method to lose weight and ingest pills containing tapeworm eggs! But the worms also eat away important nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that your body needs to grow!
Plus it's a little gross isn't it? The tapeworms grow incredibly long and keep reproducing! I've heard that tapeworms can come out of your butt, nose, or mouth! You might find little larvae (baby tapeworms) in your poo!
Check out how long they can get in this Youtube video:
Although the tapeworm diet is completely disgusting to me, some people are still willing to do it. There is a mental motivation there to do anything possible to lose weight. There are not many symptoms from tapeworm infections at the beginning. There can be nausea, weakness, stomach pains, or diarrhea. The tapeworms can also produce nutrient-deficiencies. But eventually, the tapeworm will move out of your intestines and into other parts of your body! That includes the BRAIN! More severe infections include:
- Seizures
- Fever
- Bacterial infection
- Allergic reactions
- See more symptoms at mayoclinic.com
Would you do the tapeworm diet? I think it's nasty! But the two girls sitting in the middle of the Youtube video above still wanted to ingest tapeworm eggs even after seeing how disgusting they are!
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Comments (47)
My gender is embarrassing.
I saw that on the Tyra show and honestly couldn't watch. How anyone could be that desperate is beyond me.
You know a woman who tried that has died before, right? The tapeworm grew so large that it ripped open her intestines.
Is being "thin" really worth the risk of having your INTESTINES EXPLODE?!
GOD women are fucking retarded! I am ashamed to have a vagina.
- Kunoichi
that was on spike's 1000 ways to die ;D
but i squeal when i see a worm after it rains, if it was inside a person, i think i'd run away shrieking.
@bellXjarred - Yes it is...
I couldn't even watch. That's absolutely disgusting...not just the fact that people are actually ingesting them, but the fact that they actually WANT to. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?!
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People joke have a tapeworm inside me all the time (because of my metabolism)
IF a person had a tape worm in them, i would be PRETTY obvious because they would look sickly, because of all the deficencies since the worm is getting all the vitamins. Who wants to look sickly?!
njfksdngdi pathetically know too much about these things because of bio class. D:Because clearly moderate portion sizes and exercise aren't an option?
No wonder men think they're superior. They know better than to do this!
there's a chinese saying that goes "want pretty, don't want life". this is definitely the case here.
@timestill - I heard of that too. My dad apparently always says that.
Damn! That's pretty disgusting but really interesting! Keep the posts coming! ...
Tape worm diet! I grew up on a dairy farm. I have seen tapeworms before. The thought of one of those things hanging out of my rear end is beyound disgusting.
Whoa, deliberately becoming infested with tapeworms? That's some hardcore dieting right there.
Idiots.
That's terrifying. I can't believe people would go through such idiocy!
there's no way that's a legitimate diet. don't get thinspo started on this.
People are dumb.
What amazes me is that this has been around for so long, and people still do it.
What amazes me even more is that so many people will go to extreme lengths; when it's not actually that difficult to exercise and live healthily.
That is gross! DX
Yes...I think I'll pass on this trend.
That makes me want to barf. Gah. I would never be that desperate to ingest a parasite. No way.
They are soooo disguting. Anyone willing to do that has a mental problem and should seek psychiatric help for why they feel the need to go through such lengths.
Oh lawd no!!
Wow, the crazy things people do to lose weight...
No freakin way!!! That is gross.
If you have tape worms in your stomach/intestine ... then what happens if you eat tape worms? Do these tape worms get eaten by those tape worms? ;)
Eew!
@kachino - haha i'm not 100% sure. i think that if you physically eat a worm and chew it, it will die, especially in the stomach acids. People get tapeworms from digesting the eggs, which i assume are durable in the stomach's acidic conditions. then the eggs hatch and live in the intestine!