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The extremes people go to lose weight. Just less than a minute I hear on the Drs tv, the tapeworm diet. my goodness, who seriously wants those suckers munching on their intestines? I'll watch it and maybe comment later.

Gross!! I'll pass on the worms. Even the one at the bottom of the tequila bottle. ESPECIALLY, the one at the bottom of the tequila bottle. I heard that was like a psychadellic mushroom trip.

Now that tequila worm sounds intriguing:)

[Debs]

This was popular in the Victorian era, we haven't got any smarter have we?!
Btw, was listening to the radio last week about people drinking alcohol with mummified toes in them, a worm in the tequila sounds positively scrum my

Do you believe this, I heard this on fox fm just today and now I'm reading about it, I think the toe was pickled? People who have amputees, donate them too, not just dead folk. She said about 60 folks were lining up for this very drink and as long as the toe touched your lips, all was good for the tradition.
Back to the tapeworm, I saw it on the tv and it looks like fettucine pasta. ewgh!!

A pickled toe ? I love pickles but that is disgusting.....

I never drank tequila with the worm in the bottle, I just can't.

I am not sure to have worms in you is really heathy, imagine when they grow and "reproduce"... Oh god I have the picture of it in my head now...

I just looked up the 'The National Post' Canada and an American worker actually swallowed the human toe and was fined $500, he wanted bragging rights, I saw a picture of the toe and it looked like a dried prune. This is a Ukon tradition. (Shudders!!) arghhh.

[wildmissus]

I've see the tapeworm thing on TV before, not as a diet but as a problem as the tapeworm eats your food so that you get no nutrition form what you eat and passing it is also a problem as it can be up to 6 feet long.

This chat has certainly helped my fast day today!

How revolting!, yuk yuk! the idea of having something inside you eating you reminds me of my breast cancer, I used to visualise all my immune system eating all my cancer cells like packman but fortunately surgery must have got rid of most of them. Wasn't it Dr M who swallowed a tapeworm for research or was it another researcher in a documentary? Worms are also supposed to calm an overreacting immune system & help with asthma, but it still seems very unappealing.

Im not on a fasting day today but after reading these posts i feel physically sick and may skip lunch altogether today! lol Yeeugh.
Have a good weekend folks