By Vania Raebel | June 21, 2019
While crazy diet fads seem to be a hallmark of humanity, this one definitely tops the list. A diet from the early 20th century encouraged people to take a pill containing a tapeworm, in the belief that it would help them lose weight.
The tapeworm would hatch inside the body and eat whatever the host was eating. So, the idea behind the diet was that you could eat anything you wanted because the worm would be the one digesting it. Apparently, they didn’t know that getting a tapeworm infection is not so great for your health.
