Rational Madness

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Watching Animal Planet last night, I came across the show "Most Extreme Diets in the Animal Kingdom". There, they featured the Emperor Penguins (of March of the Penguins fame) that can go 3 months without eating while they are rearing their young. Salmon that can go 6 months starving just to mate... and the number 1, the tiny common tick (garapata), species of which have been recorded to have gone as much as 18 years waiting for food! Talk about Juan Tamad waiting for food to come by.

Anyways, interpolated in the said show were comparisons to humans. Like, how would a human endure such a diet etc. We can't of course, live 18 years without eating or drinking. Three days and our body would literally eat ourselves alive by taking on the proteins and fat from our organs.

But the most disturbing thing about the show was actually not the sight of a bloodsucking tick that has grown ickily the size of a raisin because it's full of blood. The most disturbing thing was how humans have come a long way when it comes to dieting in a quest to get thinner.

The Atkins diet has been inserted in Mc Donald's salads. Versions of the South Beach Diet has been proliferating in menus in certain restaurants. Watch Home TV Shopping and you're bound to see perhaps 50% of products devoted to trimming the human slob.

But did you know that in the 1920s, when women were obsessed with becoming flapper

dancers, women resorted to a different sort of "diet". They took pills then too. But unlike Xenical, which would lead to several trips to the toilet, they took in a different sort of pill... One that's ickier than ticks. Doctors gave these women a pill that was infused with tape worm eggs! You know what your momma told you when you were young? You were thin because you've got worms in your tummy. Well, that was literally making them thin-- worms! The downside is that, the worms eventually got to be as long as 20 inches and were literally eating their insides! YEULLLCHHH!!!!

I would rather have a healthy bulge than play hostess to a bunch of worms that would eventually make its way out of my body through some hole (like wounds, nose, ears etc.) Why don't we do what penguins do? According to study, drinking cold water could burn energy without altering our daily diet. Why? Because it takes energy to turn the cold water into warm water. Simple. That's why penguins eat snow during mating season... which actually makes them a little thinner. But hey, if you're hungry... EAT!

she told the story ... 7:48 AM

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Karrisa. A cat lover. A dog lover. Frustrated poet and writer. Cynic. Stardust traveller. Stubborn. Here and There. Maaaaaaaaad.

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