Recently, Tyra Banks revealed that this is her last season on her talk show. She will be quitting, and if the level of subjects she's had on her show of late show anything, it's that she has jumped the shark. Today, she discussed the tapeworm diet.
The tapeworm diet is exactly what it sounds like. A person ingests a tapeworm, and loses weight because the tapeworm is taking nutrients away from them. Essentially, the tapeworm diet is a diet without any reduction in calories, or exercise.
The Tyra Banks tapeworm diet episode is actually a repeat of a show that first aired in November. On that show, Banks interviewed women who said they would willingly ingest a tapeworm in order to lose weight, the easy way.
Obviously, the tapeworm diet has not passed the scrutiny of the FDA. On the other hand, if one checks Snopes.com, home of the best Internet fact-checking in the world, it seems people are wondering if a tapeworm diet "pill" ever existed. To Snopes, which usually has a yea or nay answer, the answer is, incredibly, undetermined.
A lot of the rumor and innuendo about the tapeworm diet comes from the story about opera singer Maria Callas (1923-1977). Callas was afflicted with tapeworms, but not due to any tapeworm diet, according to the site. They state that she was fond of steak and liver tartare, raw meat dishes prone to contamination.
Tapeworm diet or not, tapeworms are usually "caught" by ingesting live tapeworm larvae in undercooked food. Once inside the digestive tract, a larva can grow into a very large adult tapeworm.
Among the most common tapeworms found in humans are the pork tapeworm, the beef tapeworm, the fish tapeworm, and the dwarf tapeworm. Infections involving the pork and beef tapeworms are also called taeniasis. It's unclear if there is a most popular tapeworm for the tapeworm diet.
However, before you go and try to find someone willing to set you up with a tapeworm diet of your own, don't forget the other symptoms you might find if you happen to get a tapeworm. Besides weight loss, that can include malnutrition, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anemia and the formation of fluid-filled cysts. Those cysts can damage organs, block circulation and cause seizures, if they end up in your brain.
Given those risks, it would seem rather foolish to invest in a tapeworm diet, rather than the simple exercise and less calorie diet that been going around for years. Don't forget, also, that you will eventually want to divest yourself of the tapeworm, and that will require ingesting some chemicals that are toxic to the tapeworm, and not so great for you, either. The tapeworm diet may be weight loss, but it's also a dangerous way.
Written by Michael Santo
HULIQ
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