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 5.

Bones

For most serial killers, the human skeleton is either something to defile or to turn into a souvenir.

But for the most unimaginative who only eat the finest cuts of meat, they could be missing a real treat.

Although a cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer wasted a huge amount of time

rinsing the bones, stripping the protein-rich meat, soaking them in

bleach and painting these trophies like a twisted toddler at a sadistic playgroup. Every other bone he smashed with a hammer and disposed of, but he never ate

them. Survival experts know how nutritious and tasty bones can be. In 1820,

whaling ship the Essex was sunken by a sperm whale in the Pacific.

Drifting for 90 days, of the 17 man crew only five survived, having placed their dead compatriot's leg bones to their lips and sucked out the life-giving marrowbone.

Admit it, bones, they're not exactly a staple of our everyday diet or the

choices parts which we hunger for. Being 14% of our body mass, made of protein, collagen, calcium, and phosphorus.

A skeleton gives our body its shape, a framework for the muscle structure, and it protects our most delicate of organs.

Minerals make the bone strong. Collagen gives it its flexibility and every atom is replaced every 10 years.

Its hard outer shell is called the periosteum.

Underneath are the blood vessels and the lymphatics which carry its nutrients.

And the muscles, ligaments and tendons attach to the periosteum. Of the

two hundred and six bones in the human skeleton, 126 are apendicular bones,

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