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Patrick:
--- Quote from: rj on March 11, 2007, 10:35:28 AM ---Hey Rick,
There's a guy at a flee market not far from where i live. he sells tape worms, and people buy em like crazy for the sole purpose of loosing weight..
rj
--- End quote ---
Does he sell tape also? May not be a need for it if you eat tape worms. ;D
During my senior year in High School (I weighed only 95 lbs) and my mother was concerned; so the doc suggested checking for tape worms. :o
I did not have tape worms. Very humiliating for a 16 yr old boy. :-[ >:(
I eat bugs (thanks, Dennis); Acidophilus.
rick:
--- Quote from: rj on March 11, 2007, 10:35:28 AM ---Hey Rick,
There's a guy at a flee market not far from where i live. he sells tape worms, and people buy em like crazy for the sole purpose of loosing weight..
rj
--- End quote ---
I guess if anyone can believe God will torture most of His creation for all eternity, eating a few worms wouldnt be out of the question!!!!
Do tapeworms really make you hungry?
Not usually. In fact, a tapeworm is more likely to make you lose your appetite. That's because the worm can irritate your bowels when it attaches to them with its circular suckers (and, in some cases, its movable hooks). Though the parasite does absorb some of your digested food through its skin, it won't eat enough to make you hungry. (One variety—the "fish tapeworm"—can cause a vitamin B-12 deficiency in some patients.) The worm won't starve you, but irritation of your intestines can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, reduced appetite, and weight loss.
Most patients don't experience any of these symptoms. You probably wouldn't know you had an infection unless you found stray worm segments—called "proglottids"—swimming in your stool. Each proglottid constitutes a self-contained (hermaphroditic) reproductive organ holding up to 100,000 eggs. A tapeworm reproduces by detaching these sections from its tail, so that the eggs can find their way out of your body and into a new host.
Doctors have described several other symptoms that go along with tapeworm infection in rare cases. Some patients develop headaches, convulsions, or skin rashes. Others actually do see an increase in appetite, just like Glen "Big Baby" Davis. Few comprehensive studies of these unusual symptoms have been completed, and parasitologists don't have a good sense of how prevalent these side effects are.
We do know that the eggs of some kinds of parasites—like the "pork tapeworm"—can become implanted inside your body.* This can cause much more serious complications, as the eggs embed themselves in bodily organs and cause cysts in your liver, lungs, or brain.
HUNGRY ANYONE??????????????????
hillsbororiver:
Many years back there was this exchange between a couple of noted deep thinkers when they were discussing what to have for breakfast;
(Curly) "I'll have burnt toast and a rotten egg."
(Moe) "Burnt toast and a rotten egg? Whatta ya want that for?"
(Curly) "I got a tapeworm and that's good enough for him!"
From the short 'Punch Drunks'
rick:
BURNT TOAST AND A ROTTEN EGG? I didnt know my wife ever cooked for any deep noted thinkers!!!! if you read this, susan, I LOVE YOU........rick
PKnowler:
Hey you Guys,
Well I made a BIG mistake to eat my breakfast cereal while reading this thread! ;D
I think I am going to be sick. I'm feeling kinda nauseas. Hey RJ I was just kidding
about wanting to have some of them worms! I didn't know that people really bought them to
help them loose weight.Yuk! I'm not THAT desperate!
Hey Rick thanks for the detail facts concerning worms, that's important information that we all need to know! He he ::)
That was a BAD joke concerning your wife's cooking! You better hope she doesn't visit the forum. :D
Hey Patrick I knew that acidophilus was a bacteria but I didn't realize that it was considered a bug?
I looked it up and sure enough it is called a friendly bug. I learn something new everyday! ;)
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