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Would you like to make use of a surefire method of losing weight?  You can eat all you want, yet keep those pounds off.  Eat, eat, eat and lose fat.  The secret?  Sanitized tape worms.

“Ridiculous!” you say?  Well, yes it is ridiculous.  Who is their right mind would make use of an intestinal parasite in an effort to control weight?  Doctors and nutritionists would certainly turn a huge thumbs down on the idea, and undoubtedly just about everyone would agree with them.  Yet, at one time, there were those who tried this method, and, as an ad from the early 1900’s shows, there were suppliers of tape worms who met this demand as they successfully advertised their product.

We can smile now as we wonder about the gullibility of our ancestors, but that is because we know better. 

It is important, of course, to know better, not only about the dangers of tape worms, but about other health related matters.  Research continually provides information relating to previously unknown hazards.

This includes canning methods.  These days more and more people are rediscovering the value of home canning.  Preserving food saves us money, and when money is tight, that is a wise thing to do.  Consequently, old canners are being dusted off and old canning handbooks are being brought to light for perhaps the first time in years.

That’s good, but that’s also bad, for some of those old canning methods have been found to be unsafe.  Canning the way your grandmother did may not necessarily prove to be harmful, but it might be.  Consequently, it might be wise to ignore some of those old instructions and to research what have been proven to be safer methods of canning.

It just might save us some pain and regret, and would help to eliminate the possibility of our children and grandchildren looking back in wonderment at our canning foolishness.