Saturday, January 01, 2011

From urban legend to reality?


It's a famous (possibly true) urban legend: women knowingly or unknowingly swallowing tapeworms to lose weight.


But if this story is on the ball, it looks like it just became fact:


Female students in China have been eating roundworm eggs to lose weight for job interviews - because employment is so hard to come by.

They hatch in the stomach, allowing those who take them to shed pounds without exercising or dieting in the Xiamen, China.

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