Comments on: Don't Try This Diet At Home…

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:26:05 +0000

It seems like after reading this women would understand there is no sensible short cut that will get rid of excess pounds. It takes exercise and focus and commitment, just like anything else that is not on everyone’s I-hate-to-do-this-stuff list.

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:21:03 +0000

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By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:03:26 +0000

I’ve heard of this. Scary isn’t it. If someone is considering this they have a bigger problem than trying to lose a few pounds.

By: K

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:23:37 +0000

This does seem to come around every so often. I remember my mum telling me about a colleague who had been taking herbal slimming pills, and then heard a rumour that there was a tapeworm egg at the centre of every pill…

“Helminth therapy” does exist. For example, Crohn’s disease sufferers have had pig whipworms prescribed to them, under strict medical supervision.

Not that that makes the idea any less yucky. I’m sure the people with Crohn’s disease don’t WANT to do it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:08:13 +0000

“Some freak girl named Belinda came up to me and said her dad made her swallow a tape worm and she was going to get skinny.”

Get on the phone and call her up and ask her about it. She’ll say, “Yes, it’s true! But it wasn’t me. It was my friend Carly.” Then have her call Carly up. “True! But it was Danielle.” And so on.

It’s the friend-of-a-friend memory trick. And it never reaches an end.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:05:49 +0000

It’s a famous urban legend. Snopes and the Brunvand books talk about it.

By: AnnieMcPhee

AnnieMcPhee — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:19:42 +0000

Kari, I don’t know if this particular article is a hoax but I can tell you for sure that inserting a tapeworm is a LONG-honored method of weight loss. It works! The tapeworm basically eats all the food, and you get skinny. This has been done for a long time. Never mind the ill effects, it makes you thin and that’s “all” that matters, right?

By: Diana the Scale Junkie

Diana the Scale Junkie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:42 +0000

I remember hearing about this in the 70′s when I was in elementary school. Some freak girl named Belinda came up to me and said her dad made her swallow a tape worm and she was going to get skinny….she suggested I do the same thing (yes I was chubby back then too) I don’t know what ever happened to Belinda, her family belonged to some cult and they moved to South America.

I’ve tried a lot of crazy things but this won’t be on my “to do” list any time soon!

By: Lollydee

Lollydee — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:19:36 +0000

WAH.

By: Kery

Kery — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:16:45 +0000

Uhh. I hope this is a hoax. I wish it were a hoax. It sounds like a hoax, but it also seems like the status of this thing is actually indeterminated? Whatever. Society is so screwed up these days that I wouldn’t even be surprised if this was true. *shudders*

Well, at least, now I don’t feel like eating at all, so this is probable an appropriate side-effect of that website.

As we say among my friends… “Veni, vidi, vomi.”