You can’t wriggle your way out of obesity. Doctors on YouTube have warned viewers that tapeworm egg pills are being sold on the dark web as a quick-fix weight loss solution — putting consumers at risk ...

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This is one fad diet you don’t want to try. An Iowa woman desperate to shed a few pounds admitted that she ordered a live tapeworm off the internet and swallowed it, The Des Moines Register reported.

If you think juice cleanses are extreme, check out this misguided diet. An Iowa woman recently told her doctor that she bought a tapeworm on the Internet and ingested it in an attempt to lose weight.

In her book Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand states that in the 1930s racehorse jockeys trying to lose weight would swallow a capsule containing a tapeworm egg. The worms would then mature in the jockeys ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The medical director for the Iowa Department of Public Health is warning against the tapeworm diet. In her weekly email to public health workers around Iowa, Dr. Patricia Quinlisk ...

What SheSays: Tapeworm diet A woman ingested a tapeworm so that she could lose weight. Heidi Shaffer, Emily Welker and Tracy Frank discuss how far is too far for physical beauty and why people make go ...

It's almost April, which means we're thisclose to being reminded that it's almost bikini season, which means it's time to talk about the winter weight you've packed on. How's that working out for you?

Diet culture has (sadly) existed for as long as humans have had beauty standards. These standards have caused many people to try fad diets — many of which are harmful, if not outright deadly. Dieting ...

It's almost April, which means we're thisclose to being reminded that it's almost bikini season, which means it's time to talk about the winter weight you've packed on. How's that working out for you?