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Old Working Diet Re-Visited
March 08, 2008
We see diets that have incorporated water, veggies, fish, exercise, surgery, stapling. We have diets where you have meals sent to your home so that you feed only on what others say is proper for your body. Well folks, it's no longer the hottest diet fad on the market. Due today for its poor television image but the tapeworm weight program still has followers and detractors. Oh yes, the lowly Tapeworm. It wasn't that long ago that neighbor would say, "Your kid eats like he has a tapeworm!" It was not so long ago that advertisements tried to parlay the abilities of the Tapeworm to shed pounds. It is not long ago that jockey's would utilize the tapeworm as part of their regiment for keeping pounds off in a very pound conscience sport. Well let's see what dear old Miss VanHoosen's research has uncovered.
Many sites offer commentary on the 'effects' of the tapeworm diet and a search shows that the tapeworms of today are marketed as "The Sanitized Tapeworm Diet!" And we assume this means that the Tapeworms have somehow washed all there tiny little hands, brushed their tiny little teeth and will be carrying an anti-bacterial soap in their fanny pouches? A tapeworm by definition is: "Any of various ribbon like, often very long flatworms of the class Cestoda, that lack an alimentary canal and are parasitic in the intestines of vertebrates, including humans."
What is not "Urban" legend is that Men and Women alike have used the Tapeworm as a weight-loss solution and still do today. Checking the websites that have looked into the Tapeworm diet we found that most were as we are ambivalent to the truth or fiction of this organic dietary supplement. The most popular Urban Myth debunker, Scopes.com has not thrown the 'legend' aside making an "undetermined" decision. Ingesting tapeworm cysts (a baby tapeworm) is the start of the "diet." While the tapeworm happily gobbles up the foods that you put into your stomach it also feeds on the vitamins and nutrients that those foods try to give to your body which of course decreases the body's ability to function at a healthy level. So, you may lose weight but you will lose the ability for your body to withstand the negative effects of your environment on your ability to live a healthy life. In other words, you open yourself up to a legion of heath related problems. Let's not forget that (something I remember well from what I had heard as a kid) that the Tapeworm also grows to a size that rivals the length of the intestine and they love to create little versions of themselves to live in the food rich environment that you give them.
I like the show "House" with Hugh Laurie and recently they aired an episode that showed what can happen to a healthy, normal female adult as the result of a tapeworm. True to form the show also made it clear that the tapeworm can and will over time find their way into other areas of the body, especially in muscle and hard tissues and can cause cysts in muscle, liver tissue and believe it or not your eyes. Our bodies have a response to the tapeworm in the form of Ascites which is excess fluid in the space between the tissues lining the abdomen and abdominal organs (the peritoneal cavity). Ascites create a large pool of fluid in your stomach as an immune response to something in your stomach that is not supposed to be there, an invasion. It could be said that if you have a large distended stomach or pot belly chances are very good that you have, voluntarily or involuntarily given a home to the tapeworm. The advertisement from the turn of our century shows the ad campaign launched targeting the "dieting" women of the time.
I only wish that we could all learn to be comfortable with who and what we are. Alas, with the psychology and self-image of many of us this is not to be. We here at theGRIND do not believe that dieting is an answer for the overweight. It just seems that in psychological terms using food or the portioning of is not a viable choice. We need energy to complete the task of living and food to produce that energy. Making food a negative psychological flag goes against the inherent primal need for food for survival. We're not even going to go into what different methods that have been utilized to get the tapeworm out once the contract expires. Take a look at what some of the other sites are saying, Google Search Tapeworms and Dieting.
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For too long I've messed with the wiring in my head. Now it shorts out more oft than not. But at my age I just sit and enjoy the sparks. RJM '07
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