a tale of two worms

The Worm Within—a tale of an American in Belgium who found a trespasser in his person.

(...) but the beef worm could grow more than just a few meters; it would keep adding to its body, lengthening and snaking through the miles of intestine. I have it on good authority that, with the small and large intestines combined, it could reach the moon, loop it twice, then come all the way back down to earth and you’d still have enough left over to play skip rope with.

New Tapeworm Fad Diet Sweeps Hollywood—The Weekly World News.

“You can eat whatever you want and never worry,” confides one dieter who claims to have lost 73 pounds in eight days.