Fast food and junk food are the love of today’s generation. Pizza, burgers, fries are the most popular fast foods enjoyed by people ranging from kids to elderly people. But the dark side of it is that it has increased the obesity levels of people leading to some fatal conditions like hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disorders. coronary heart diseases, heart strokes, gallbladder diseases, etc. But here’s a way how you can eat whatever you love and still not get obese. Then here’s one thing you need to follow-A Tapeworm diet explained.
The idea is that you infect yourself with a tapeworm by swallowing the tapeworm egg and allowing to grow it inside the intestines.
What are Tapeworms?
Tapeworms are parasites that attach to the inside of human hosts,then feed off the host as well as any food that passes by.Some people hope that by having a tapeworm living inside of you allows any food you eat to be eaten by a Tapeworm resulting in less calories being absorbed into your body and helping you to lose weight.The claim is that you can eat whatever you want and still lose weight.
Tapeworm that infect humans follow similar life stages starting with an egg being consumed by a host usually by inadvertently consuming undercooked meat,fish or food contaminated by fecal matter.The egg passes into the intestines where it penetrates deeply into the mucosal lining,from where it migrated to other ares of body and grow into along segmented worms,feeding off the nutrition of its host.
4 common types of tapeworms
Pork tapeworm
The pork tapeworm ,as the name suggests is usually caused by eating infected raw pork.Once a human is infected it normally grows to 2-3 meters in length,but can become much larger sometimes over 8 meters long.The problem is the pork tapeworm can migrate to other areas of the body they penetrte the gut lining causing Cysticercosis.In Cysticercosis,the pork tapeworm can burrow through the gut lining and find its way to muscles,skin,eyes and even brain tissues causing epilepsy,seizures,and blindness.
Fish Tapeworm
The fish tapeworm,usually caused by eating raw or uncooked fish grows even longer upto 10 meters.Fish tpeworms can cause immune responses and cyokine reactions due to massive amount of eggs that fish tapeworms release into the the stools and the number of eggs is arround 1 million eggs per day by one worm.
Beef Tapeworm
Beef tapeworms are the largest of the tapeworms,reaching a possible 22 meters in length.Severe beef infections can cause intestinal blockages that require surgical removal.
Dwarf tapeworms
The dwarf tapeworms usually found in th stools of infected rodents mice or bugs ,tend to be the smallest of the human tapeworms reaching only about 4 cms in length.It commonly infects children living in unsanitary conditions.
History of the Tapeworm diet
The tapeworm diet was born out of the Victorian Era and its usual standards of beauty. Back then, tiny waists of 16 inches were desirable, and women wore extremely restrictive corsets to achieve these unnatural results. Weight loss and slimming were achieved by any means necessary. In fact, tapeworm eggs were sold as supplements back then and had advertisements selling these things
Is the tapeworm diet effective?
Sometimes its likey to gain weight due to increase in hunger and can more likely get diarrheaor some random gastrointestinal problems from it. The tapeworm has dangerous complications as well as a lack of proof that it can effectively help you lose (and keep off) weight.
How can we treat excessive tapeworm infection?
Tapeworms are usually treated with a medicine taken by mouth. The most commonly used medicine for tapeworms is praziquantel (Biltricide). These medications paralyze the tapeworms, which let go of the intestine, dissolve, and pass from your body with bowel movements.