Crazy celeb diet tricks: The Tapeworm Diet
The Tapeworm Diet
Yes, this is exactly what it sounds like. The tapeworm diet started in the early 1900s when the weight-loss industry was in its infancy and people would do anything to lose weight (that last part is still true).
Salesmen of questionable repute started selling pills containing tapeworm parasites which were supposed to live in your stomach and feed on the food you ate, so that your body would not absorb all of those calories, and you'd lose weight.
The worms also secrete a protein that makes your digestive system much less efficient. Believe it or not, this diet still exists today, even though any adult with a modicum of common sense would have to agree that purposefully giving yourself worms can't be healthy.
Tyra Banks is one celebrity who seems to have done this diet and has introduced her show audience to it too. This is a dangerous diet - to the point where the import and sale of these worms is illegal in some countries.
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