Tapeworm Diet

[Jazzy]

The medical director for the Iowa Department of Public Health is warning against the tapeworm diet.

In her weekly email to public health workers around Iowa, Dr. Patricia Quinlisk recounted a recent incident:

A physician sought the department’s help for a patient who said she’d swallowed a tapeworm she’d bought over the Internet. The woman was hoping the parasite would help her lose weight.

Quinlisk says hucksters sold tapeworm eggs in pill form as a weight-loss aid a century ago. She says ingesting them “is extremely risky and can cause a wide range of undesirable side effects, including rare deaths.”

Tapeworms can live for years in the intestines and grow to several feet long. They can be accidentally ingested in undercooked meat.

Source

Tapeworms being sold over the internet? Ugh..I don't even want to know where they get them.

 

[DrLeftover]

From the site selling the things, unedited:
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LOOSE WEIGHT EASILY
PLAY PRETTY GOOD JOKE ON FRIENDS
MAKE SCIENTIFIC PROJECT OR MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS


All eggs guaranteed and fresh. Collected at Владивосток Vladivostok Soviet prison camp in one liter slurry of liquid human excrement. Mature tapeworm grows to up to 10 metres.

Please allow 12 weeks for delivery. Use promply on arrival by applying to salad or uncooked food. Do not refrigerate. Contact Col. Dimiti Pushkin for delivery. Please to accept cash only Euros or American Dollars. No returns.

Euros -- e 24.50
Dollars -- $ 34.25

Click below to check out:

In the interest of the well being of our members, I won't post the link.

 

[Jazzy]

If that didn't look and sound like a scam, then nothing does. Besides that, this is just beyond sickening.

 

[Evil Eye]

It looks like a scam, but it kinda isn't if that woman got it from that site... Having a parasite inside you eating your food does make you "loose" weight after all
You get what you paid for. That doesn't mean it's wise.

 

[DrLeftover]

That was just one site of several that I found using an overseas search engine, it was, well, the best bad example.