There’s an old story going around about tapeworms and weight loss. The story goes that they actually placed dried up tapeworms in these diet pills in the early 1900’s.  People were losing substantial amounts of weight, and they were amazed by all the results.  But then they stopped taking the diet pills, and they couldn’t stop losing weight!

Well, in that fact, it’s true. Tapeworms basically eat all your nutrients, leaving you without having actually ingested the fat and otherwise.  So you lose weight, you burn off fat because your body is eating it off, and otherwise.  But at the same time, you really can’t miss it when you poo out tapeworms.  They used to check it in school children in certain countries on a regular basis for that reason.

But as far as people losing weight with tapeworms, a diet pill being around for that, etc, there is actually no proof to substantiate that.  There is no proof that those diet pills ever existed.  However, there is one opera star who was known for eating raw red meats a lot, and when you do that on a regular basis or ever, you do take the risk of getting tapeworms.  So have people lost weight with tapeworms?  Certainly.  People who have tapeworms lose weight, and likewise that opera singer reported about probably did have tapeworms when she literally lost over 100 pounds in a short period of time.  However, the tapeworm diet pills do not really exist most likely speaking.