A word of warning. If you're easily offended by cannibalism, death, torture and fascinating facts about the human body,

this series may not be for you. Therefore, listener discretion is advised. Cannibalism.

Could you eat a whole human being?

With the help of a doctor, a scientist and a chef, I set out to see if it's possible.

Cannibalism Part 22. A Disorder

A Thai A thigh, a heart or an eye are easy pickings for a cannibal. But do true cannibals have a disorder, which means they'll eat anything anything no matter how disgusting or complicated.

And wannabe cannibals don't.

Body parts are symbolically unique for different cannibals based on what they're lacking in their lives.

From 1988-89, Zutomi Meijazaki, the Japanese little girl killer, murdered and mutilated four girls, aged four to seven.

As a paedophilic necrophile, he raped their corpses, drank their blood, and ate their hands.

As being born premature with a birth defect, he envied theirs as his were deformed and

claw-like.

For less imaginative cannibals,

a thighs and obvious choices are food,

whereas hands are complex.

They contain 27 bones, a quarter of those in the human body, 27 joints,

three main nerves, five main blood vessels, a hundred plus ligaments, tendons and 30 muscles.

The biggest being the dorsal interrosias are just 0.5 millimeters thick, which for a cannibal is hardly a snack.

Like feet with 26 bones, 33 joints and 29 muscles, many of which being thin lack much calarific value.

So in extreme cases like the Kazakh famine from 1930 to 33,

eyewitnesses recalled,

A foot or a hand of a child, boiling in the cauldron over a fire,

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