Do YOU Eat Raw Fish? If So -- YOU GOT WORMS!

[ritehook]

This was part of the thread on retiring to a 3rd world land. As that thread is reaching the end of its lifespan, I thought it may be of interest to give this particular sub-topic a life of its own.

If you eat raw fish, sushi, ceviche, whatever the hell it's called in whatever land, you have small pinworms enjoying the easy life in your large intestine.

Not may have these tiny critters living it up down there in the old poop tube. Really, really there!

If you eat undercooked pork you ccould have their bigger and more dangerous brothers, the trichina, or pork worm.

In Mexico, and I'm guessing Japan and other lands where eating raw fish is popular, alll drugstores sell an over the counter product that will de-worm you. They are popular sellers.

It's not only the dog that has to be de-wormed regularly. It's the consumers of raw or undercooked flesh. If you ever experienced a bad itch on the anal cavity, that's the little white pinworms getting to close to the opening in their hunt for nutrients.

No amount of chopping the raw fish will kill all the worms; at the least, their microscopic larvae will suvive, and be born in your colon, where there are plenty of nutrients for it

If you don't have a de-wormer but still insist on eating sushi, regularly take the natural cleanser, apple cider vinegar, preferably an organic brand, like Bragg's. (Mix a few tbsps with V8 juice to mask the strong taste) This is good for you, restores PH balance (and gets rid of dandruff and other annoyances, like food poisoning) and will drive out the nematodes living it up in your lower colon.

Yeah, for real.

[Willie Bee]

Trust me, if I have any nematodes in my lower colon, they're a bigger man than me...wait, that probably came out wrong. What I mean is, oh hell, y'all figure it out

[JBC77]

If you pour coca cola on raw pork of beef......after a few minutes you can actually watch the worms crawl out of the top of the meat.

[JAHgger4noz]

It's the consumers of raw or undercooked flesh

Dam, I liked my medium rare thick-cut steak too. I wonder how many worms exist in those undercooked flesh? MAybe I dont want to know
Every time we go to a SteakHouse, my buddy always orders his steak black and blue. And he's paying a hundred bucks for it. After reading this, next time I go with him, i think I'm going to when that plate of worms come. Maybe I should order a glass of coca-cola, get him distracted to look somewhere else and pour some of that shit on LOL JBC77

Ritehook, are u a vegan?

[durito]

I eat raw fish in third world countries all the time.

Good stuff.

[HAPPY BOY]

im full of shiit and now worms too. oh well hope they have fun. Now when I die they can get a head start and chow down on the rest of my corpse.

[Willie Bee]

Some of you girls never have spent much time 'camping' in SE Asian jungles or headed to sea with nothing but potable water, rice and beef tongue in your stores have you? If you're really worried about it, try some of the herbal products that have licorice in them. And if you want to avoid the problem without any supplements, have a glass of fine whiskey neat each day, consume fiber and raw veggies and just stay regular.

[HAPPY BOY]

Whiskey did you say whiskey... Them worms done died in my ass then.

[jon13009]

I also don't recommend swimming in fresh water, walking bare foot in the mud, or touching or petting animals if you are traveling to a country you are not familiar with.

If you thinks worms are bad how about this (and you don't have to go overseas to get this):

http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/Brain-Eating_Amoeba

If you are worried about traveling to a foreign country, see a "travel clinic" at a reputable hospital to insure you are properly vaccinated and prepared for health hazards in certain countries - particularly those countries where malaria is still prevalent.

I like eating sushi here in the states, but only eat well cooked food (if you are a vegetarian, the food may be washed with local water, so be careful) and drink bottled water (or lots of beer) when traveling abroad. But that hasn't stopped me from bringing imodium with me when I travel.

[LargeMouthBass]

I just had some Maguro last night... Didn't smell like fish or taste like chicken.

[Willie Bee]

Whiskey did you say whiskey... Them worms done died in my ass then.

Doesn't really do much for the worms, Happy, but it will make you feel better and good whiskey should always be enjoyed neat anyway

I'm going to take Ganch's vodka challenge next spring in NYC. Will report back then if that had a worming effect on my ample body

[Dark Horse]

If you pour coca cola on raw pork of beef......after a few minutes you can actually watch the worms crawl out of the top of the meat.

I'm amazed this wasn't mentioned in the opening dialogue of Pulp Fiction

[ritehook]

Dam, I liked my medium rare thick-cut steak too. I wonder how many worms exist in those undercooked flesh? MAybe I dont want to know
Every time we go to a SteakHouse, my buddy always orders his steak black and blue. And he's paying a hundred bucks for it. After reading this, next time I go with him, i think I'm going to when that plate of worms come. Maybe I should order a glass of coca-cola, get him distracted to look somewhere else and pour some of that shit on LOL JBC77

Ritehook, are u a vegan?

No, but for years I've not eaten beef or pork. I do, tho, sometimes eat chicken and fish, esp wild caught salmon. The chicken I prefer to be free range and organic, but will consume non-free-range if they're fed a non-bone, non-meat diet and not kept 24 hours a day in a small cage, like all the big commericial chicken factories do. Nor given antibiotics etc

(OK, will sometimes also eat a taco down at the Y. But only if the waitress is immaculate. As the old piece of folk wisdom has it, "If God didn't want us to eat pussy he wouldn't have made it look like a taco.")

Generally will eat organic vegs and fruits if I can get them, but that's not always easy. And I don't think I trust the US Govt (a used car salesman wearing an Uncle Sam hat) that produce marked "organic" really is. (Would your Govt lie to you? HELL, YES!)

I sometimes travel a lot and often end up eating the sh-t that passes for food in many American restaurants and all its fast food places. But I do what I'm able, and always when travelling take a small bottle of apple cider vinegar, for food poisoning mainly.

I'm not saying categorically I won't eat sushi or ceviche, but if once a year or so I do I will dose for a week after, morn and nite, with the miracle beverage, apple cider vin.

[moneyplays]

my stomach is distended. could the worms cause that? I eat sushi a lot. I can't help it but my stomach is always sticking out and hurts.

[imgv94]

If you pour coca cola on raw pork of beef......after a few minutes you can actually watch the worms crawl out of the top of the meat.

This isn't true, is it

[ritehook]

my stomach is distended. could the worms cause that? I eat sushi a lot. I can't help it but my stomach is always sticking out and hurts.

I don't think so. I've seen the colonic worms, they're small, pinworms. (Tapeworm or porkworm will cause protrusion, and could end up killing you, but these are quite rare in First World countries)

Abdominal protrusion is usually caused by the collapsse of the muscle wall there, thin to begin with. It's often due to overeating, which almost all Americans do. (Our ancestors for millions of years went "hungry" more often than not - hunger is the natural state of mankind, not daily satissfaction of hunger. There is now overwhelming evidence that regular fasting or severe calorie intake reduction - known as caloric restriction - will lead to superior health and a longer life.)

Diet and regular exercise, even fast wallking a half hour a day, will eventually reduce the bulging belly. . I know, easier said than done. But nothing comes free or cheap, tho that myth is now part of the American ideology.

[idontlikerocks]

the stress from worrying about this stuff may be worse than the stuff itself. when i go to foreign countries first thing i do is drink the water , get sick for a day, and then don't worry about it anymore.

[Dumb_lucK]

http://break.com/watch/242123/Pork_n_Coke_=_Maggots_A_real_test/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/463498/important_update_raw_pork_and_coke_video/

There you go... However Snopes have the claim as false, here is the Snopes article

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/porkworm.asp

[Thremp]

This whole thread is amazing.

[Rollins08]

I hate a living worm once. It wasn't that bad. Suck it up and don't think about what your eating.

[pico]

that is why when i am traveling in third world countries, i always drink beer/scotch when i am eating.

[Nightwolfkicksaz]

No, but for years I've not eaten beef or pork. I do, tho, sometimes eat chicken and fish, esp wild caught salmon. The chicken I prefer to be free range and organic, but will consume non-free-range if they're fed a non-bone, non-meat diet and not kept 24 hours a day in a small cage, like all the big commericial chicken factories do. Nor given antibiotics etc

(OK, will sometimes also eat a taco down at the Y. But only if the waitress is immaculate. As the old piece of folk wisdom has it, "If God didn't want us to eat pussy he wouldn't have made it look like a taco.")

Generally will eat organic vegs and fruits if I can get them, but that's not always easy. And I don't think I trust the US Govt (a used car salesman wearing an Uncle Sam hat) that produce marked "organic" really is. (Would your Govt lie to you? HELL, YES!)

I sometimes travel a lot and often end up eating the sh-t that passes for food in many American restaurants and all its fast food places. But I do what I'm able, and always when travelling take a small bottle of apple cider vinegar, for food poisoning mainly.

I'm not saying categorically I won't eat sushi or ceviche, but if once a year or so I do I will dose for a week after, morn and nite, with the miracle beverage, apple cider vin.

Apple cidar vinegar takes care of food poisoning?

[Nightwolfkicksaz]

You would think the stomach acid would kill these little bastards.

[ritehook]

Apple cidar vinegar takes care of food poisoning?

Sure. Last time I stayed with friends in Mexico I went out and bought a bunch of tuna steaks for the grill. Misteak!

Those of us who ate more than a little got the Monteczuma's revenge. I shoulda taken the vinegar before eating the tuna.

It was bad, the constant diarrhea, a bit of fever. One gal got cramping, but her menstual cycle may have contributed. So I broke out the old ACV I always carry when away from home.

It's a good organic brand, Bragg's. Most health food stores will have it, about $3 for a pint bottle. I mixed with clamato juice that was there, passed it around to those afflicted (when I could get them out of the crapper) and in a few hours (it takes a little time, but it's natural) we were all feeling fine. (But always best to take it before eating anything suspect.)

I first heard about ACV when I read an old paperback titled "Vermont Folk Medicine." (Of course you can also get a lot of info on it from the Net.)

The doctor who wrote the book cited a case where a family went to a big public picnic, but took a few swigs of ACV before leaving (Mix a few ounces with 10 oz of tomato or V8 juice, tho some can tolerate drinking it "neat.")

Everyone at the picnic got violently ill with some spoiled lobster. All except the family that fortified themselves with ACV. They were fine, didn't even get a stomach ache.

A few ounces daily of this food (for that is what it is) will also cure dandruff, and de-oderize your intestinal tract. (A negative is that it tends to make hair and nails grow faster, so more visits to the barber and the hassle of cutting nails.)So that if someone asks you in a hostile way if you think that your sh*t don't stink, you can forthrightly and accurately tell them that indeed it does not.

[ritehook]

You would think the stomach acid would kill these little bastards.

No, the pinworms don't live in the stomach. They're way down there in the lower colon. The curlicued walls of which are lined - in almost everyone who eats a "modern" diet - with decaying fecal matter.

Some years ago, at the urging of a young lady with whom I was keeping company (she was a colonic therapist) I did a colon "cleanse."

Ate sparingly for a week while taking this psyllim husk powder and something called Bentonite. The latter draws the clinging crap off the walls, and the psyllium clings to the wall and softens it.

Then I did three colonics over a week's time. I'm of average/slim build, but the amount of fecal matter that
flooded out of my body was freakin' unbelivable!

At first I thought i was gonna die (tho no pain at all) because the first long string ropes of ancient black and dried s--- that emerged, shiny tho in mucus casings (the body's way of protecting against that toxicity) looked like pieces of myself, or like old tire strips. A little later more long strips, these in the shape of the large intestine itself, with the little curls and curves.

And then I could see the litttle worms flowing thru the glass tube. "We all have them," comforted my gf. (BTW, this can be a little embarasing - however, the colonist was my gf and we'd seen each other naked a number of times!)

Over the week i must have flooded out at least 15 lbs of waste matter. And felt like I could fly for a few days after.

I still do them,maybe once every two years, but without the colonics. (You can take a natural laxative along with the psyllium and bentonite, like senna or cascara sagrada, it'll work almost as well)

I also understand the ideas of those who say, fuk it, I'm going to enjoy life and eat and drink what i like. I had that philosophy once, and still do in a way.

But being healthy and feeling great as you edge into middle age is also good, a real high. I don't take any of the little pills the pharmaceutical companies push on TV contantly, don't need 'em.

And I told my elderly neighbor when Viagra first came out that ten years hence they will find it causes cancer or something. (No cancer yet, but bad side effects of that pharmaceutical Spanish fly are being discovered almost every month.)

Just can't fool Mother Nature.

[Willie Bee]

Just can't fool Mother Nature.

Sounds like you sure tried with the "psyllim husk powder and something called Bentonite." Three colonics in a week!? Yikes! To paraphrase ol' Pat Henry, Give me a colonic or give me death. Pass the death please.

Eating plain yogurt a couple times a day for a couple of days before you go to a strange, less-developed country will help prevent Montezuma's, all for less than $3.

[ritehook]

Sounds like you sure tried with the "psyllim husk powder and something called Bentonite." Three colonics in a week!? Yikes! To paraphrase ol' Pat Henry, Give me a colonic or give me death. Pass the death please.

Eating plain yogurt a couple times a day for a couple of days before you go to a strange, less-developed country will help prevent Montezuma's, all for less than $3.

Virtually all the yogurt you'll find in the supermarket is worthless for that effect. It's really just a sugar treat that let's the ignorant think they're eating healthy.

The yogurt that has acidopholus is the kind to buy. Some market have it, most don't. Whole Earth etc will.

I doubt tho that acidopholous will prevent bad food poisoning. It's designed to keep the ph of the intestinal tract in balance, and is good for that.

I was actually talking about another matter re the psyllium and colonics, not food poisoning. But I'm not a missionary, people can do what they want. But if you do it just one time you will be shocked at the foulness and decades-old waste matter that is clogging up your eliminatory system.

As I say, I'm no fanatic on it nor a missionary. I've said my piece on it, now and forever. Now lets go back to watching TV and the pharma ads for those wonderful little pills that will cure us of everything.

{JOE CONSTIPO WAS THE MANAGER OF A MILLION PEOPLE, BUT HE WAS NO MATCH FOR A TON OF ANCIENT SHIT IN HIS COLON . . .!!!}

[ritehook]

Sounds like you sure tried with the "psyllim husk powder and something called Bentonite." Three colonics in a week!? Yikes! To paraphrase ol' Pat Henry, Give me a colonic or give me death. Pass the death please.

Eating plain yogurt a couple times a day for a couple of days before you go to a strange, less-developed country will help prevent Montezuma's, all for less than $3.

The colonic, while uncomfortable (because of the fullness at times) is not painful. And if you are of a scientific frame of mind it's sort of interesting to watch the toxic matter flow out through the glass tube right next to you, on its way to the commode.

Sort of like watching Reality TV

It does have an element of humor. After I went thru this and described the end results (pun intended) to a friend, he said: "So now Jennifer tells you that you're the only guy she ever met who isn't completely full of shit."