There already is people who do it to lose weight... Google it if you don't believe me.

Really?! How interesting. Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know that :)

27, you needn't use the smiley face. It comes off rather passive aggressive. A simple "no shit, Sherlock" would've sufficed.

Ok.

They used to advertise them for weight loss, about the same time you could buy cocaine for medicine. Between the coke and tapeworms, I imagine a lot of skinny tweakers

Ick, ick, ick! Don't look it up.

Yup they already have that. I remember watching the Tyra Banks show and she had a tape worm spread across the floor. It was LONG and disgusting! The two girls as guests on the show exclaimed they voluntarily want the tape worm inside them because they're lazy to do diets or exercise.

That's pretty messed up to hear that people would want a tape worm in their bodies if it meant that they'd lose weight...

It's what people will do just to "fit in" with what the social media now claims as the perfect figure, body shape and all that other bullshit. They'll do anything.

#40 just demonstrated a new low. We've reached the point where it's more socially acceptable to be rude thank to be polite. what. no.

There was even a woman on 1000 Ways To Die who bought a tapeworm to help her lose weight, she lost 60 pounds before she died.

Tapeworms aren't associated with any type of happiness anymore I see

Being fit isnt just about fitting in with society its also about living a long healthy life without losing limbs to diabetes

There is no such thing as a doctor apparently

Most people actually do only find out they have a tapeworm when some of it gets pooped out, it's pretty rare to just discover one in a routine doctor visitation. Unless your routine visitations include a rectal examination.

I would imagine complaints of fatigue, high metabolism, and constant hunger would make a doctor raise the possibility

Not everyone has symptoms

They don't effect everyone the same, And typically a doctors first diagnosis in that case would be malnutrition, and they'd start asking about your diet and suggest options to you. Though you're right, some will think "tapeworm" right away, it all depends on the individual.

There is no such thing as a joke either, apparently

Your comment made me think of the song 'needles' by system of a down. Now that song is stuck in my head.

Well, you still do if you didn't have it removed... And they don't make you loose weight like that. Just keeps you from gaining any so it wouldn't be that fast. I'm guessing you were just sick and weren't eating.

well... I haven't been able to eat right since I had it almost a year ago and they can't find anything wrong :/ who knows maybe I have one @.@ if I'm not allowed pets in the army does this count as one

If you think there's a possibility, please see a doctor.

If you have one you gotta get it checked out or you could die

That went out of fashion because the worms were suffocated by the corsets.

because having a parasite living inside you consuming your nutrients and slowly killing you isn't too bad, right?

....You're a dumbass

Are you dumb or suicidal