💊 The Tapeworm Diet: A Cautionary Tale from History 🪱 In the quest for beauty and thinness, history has seen some truly bizarre and dangerous trends — one of the most shocking being the Tapeworm Diet. Dating back to the Victorian era, this so-called “solution” involved ingesting embryonic tapeworms (Cysticercus bovis – Taenia saginata) to lose weight. Promoted with the promise of eating without gaining weight, it became a symbol of extreme body ideals — frailty, pallor, and a tiny waist. Even