The Tapeworm Diet

How to Be Fine

Jolenta Greenberg

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this episode of How to Be Fine’s special series - New Year, Same Old BS - Kristen and Jolenta uncover the surprising history of the Tapeworm diet. Plus, they offer up advice on how to accept a post-birth body, and how to get over unrequited love. Do you have any advice question for us? Email us at [email protected], or follow us on Instagram @howtobefinepod. And if you haven't already, please join our How to Be Fine (formerly By the Book) Facebook community! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kristenandjolenta Sources: https://www.healthline.com/health/diet-and-weight-loss/tapeworm-diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestoda https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/tapeworms https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6772/2/3/15 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20695743 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/ https://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/eat-eat-eat-those-notorious-tapeworm-diet-pills/ https://thequackdoctor.substack.com/about https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/booster-shots/story/2009-12-29/tyra-banks-and-the-tapeworm diet https://www.today.com/health/iowa-woman-tries-tapeworm-diet-prompts-doctor-warning-6c10935746 https://metro.co.uk/2015/03/24/eeew-one-of-the-kardashians-said-she-wants-a-tapeworm-to-get-slim-5118092/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw5nnq/inside-the-lasting-legacy-of-tapeworm-diets https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-swallows-tapeworm-iowa_n_3780313 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-horrifying-legacy-of-the-victorian-tapeworm-diet https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10607615/Journalist-infested-himself-with-tapeworm-for-BBC-documentary.html https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25968755 https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/diseases-conditions/tapeworm-infection-beef-or-pork

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:01.0	There is a day.
0:02.0	How to be.
0:04.0	Hey Kristen.
0:07.0	Yeah, Jolanta.
0:09.0	I have to confess something to you.
0:11.0	There is a diet that lives rent-free in my head. I think about it
0:15.0	probably once a week. Oh God there are like thousands of diets out there which one I
0:20.4	am so curious which one lives rent-free your head it's the tape worm diet.
0:24.3	Oh really the tape worm diet? Oh God, that's the one where you literally ingest a tape worm
0:31.4	right? Yes yes back when I was in high school I would daydream
0:34.7	about having a little worm in my guts that would absorb like most of the
0:39.1	calories I took in so I could just eat whatever I wanted. It is so gross, but also in our diet, Obsessed America.
0:47.0	I want to be skinny without trying America.
0:50.0	Right, exactly.
0:51.0	You know, weirdly understandable. Yeah. Yeah. So let's worm our way into this topic because I'm
0:59.3	Jelanta Greenberg. And I'm Kristen Meinzer. and this is how to be fine. Oh, In each episode of how to be fine we weigh in on what's happening in the world of
1:34.1	happiness, health, and betterment, and we offer a bit of advice for those who
1:38.5	want it. And reminder, all this month we are doing our series New Year same old BS where we do a deep dive
1:47.7	into a different fad diet each week explaining what its rules are, why it's problematic, where it came from, and why it's
1:56.1	historically significant.
1:58.1	We also have a couple of great advice letters to get to later in the show, but Joe Lenta remind us what is today's
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