Yeah but it's not an outrageous lie at all and your doubts were unfounded. Also from eating uncooked vegetables, for example, you can get worms if it got contaminated with a grazing animal's droppings.
That's why we scare our kids away from eating certain things ;)
Don't eat fruit pits = sound advice, at least to be on the safe side of things. Don't eat raw vegetables (esp. potatoes): ditto. The explanation may be false but the message is sound.
Different kinds of worms: the parasites you can get from uncooked/undercooked vegetables - specially root vegetables - become worms in your intestines, not your stomach. The "worm" lay its eggs in or on the vegetable and the eggs pass through the stomach just fine.
Some of the nastier ones wind up causing cycts in various internal organs, especially the liver, and you can go decades without knowing, until you develop problems or the cysts burst and tens of thousands of eggs flood your gall tract - which can put you in a quite severe state of shock.
All of the above will of course vary in the specifics depending on where you live, as different parts of the world have different parasites.
Also, soil can carry Clostridium botulinum, from which you may get botulism, which can be lethal.
So keep food and utensils and appliances clean, wash and rinse vegetables and fuit and berries, and never eatundercooked/untreated meat, fish or fowl.
Can you really get botulism from soil?! I doubt that. Botulism is caused by the toxin; the bacterium that makes it is not a pathogen and probably can't survive the stomach, much less thrive and keep on producing the toxin.
Meat is not potatoes, though.
Yeah but it's not an outrageous lie at all and your doubts were unfounded. Also from eating uncooked vegetables, for example, you can get worms if it got contaminated with a grazing animal's droppings.
Well, washing the veggies takes care of that. If still worried, soak in bleach water. Missionaries in Africa have done this for decades.
That's why we scare our kids away from eating certain things ;)
Don't eat fruit pits = sound advice, at least to be on the safe side of things. Don't eat raw vegetables (esp. potatoes): ditto. The explanation may be false but the message is sound.
Wouldn’t your acids in your stomach take cre of them? I mean people eat worms on tv shows for protein.
Different kinds of worms: the parasites you can get from uncooked/undercooked vegetables - specially root vegetables - become worms in your intestines, not your stomach. The "worm" lay its eggs in or on the vegetable and the eggs pass through the stomach just fine.
Some of the nastier ones wind up causing cycts in various internal organs, especially the liver, and you can go decades without knowing, until you develop problems or the cysts burst and tens of thousands of eggs flood your gall tract - which can put you in a quite severe state of shock.
All of the above will of course vary in the specifics depending on where you live, as different parts of the world have different parasites.
Also, soil can carry Clostridium botulinum, from which you may get botulism, which can be lethal.
So keep food and utensils and appliances clean, wash and rinse vegetables and fuit and berries, and never eatundercooked/untreated meat, fish or fowl.
Can you really get botulism from soil?! I doubt that. Botulism is caused by the toxin; the bacterium that makes it is not a pathogen and probably can't survive the stomach, much less thrive and keep on producing the toxin.
Did you know there is a popular diet (especially in Asia) called the tapeworm diet?
People are nuts. Merry Christmas. Happy New year. Put the turkey in the fridge within an hour of serving your meal.
No. Not eough HCl in the human GI tract but vultures have plenty, hah ha!