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Ok, I thought I heard it all. I have heard of the watermelon diet, atkins, cottage cheese, bean diet and other silly things...but the following is the grossiest, worse and utterly stupidiest diet I ever heard of.

It is gross...I would think unhealthy and dangerous.

Yes..finally the "got to lose weight" dummies came up with something that even grosses me out...The tapeworm diet.

 

The tapeworm diet includes injesting a parasite so that one can eat anything and as much as wanted. The tapeworm then takes nutrients and calories for itself. There are those who will say that if this is so, eating whatever calories one wants, the tapeworm will allow weight loss by utilizing these for its own growth. Do not forget that the parasite also take nutrients resulting in malnourishment. The tapeworm diet has more cons than pros.

The pros include almost guaranteed weight loss. However, it stops there. Here is a list of cons that should be highly considered: the parasite can be deadly and the tapeworm diet has been banned by the FDA, so even if you want a tapeworm, it is almost impossible to get one. Other cons include the need for medical intervention to get rid of the tapeworm and some dangerous side effects from the tapeworm. Finally, as with all diets, weight gain is guaranteed once the tapeworm is gone and eating is continued in the same manner.

According to Diets in Review, the tapeworm is not a diet. It is an extremely dangerous and desperate way to lose weight. When pondering how you will lose weight this year, be mindful of the best advice that is given by doctors and scientists alike: eat less and exercise more!