The tapeworm diet as discussed in the Tyra Banks show is about a person ingesting tapeworms in order to supress their weights. However, tapeworms can have dangerous results, including malnutrition and seizures.

 

The Tapeworm diet sounds exactly as it is - women who do not wish to burn the extra calories with excercise or cut down on their food intake would willingly ingest a tapeworm larvae, which would leach all nutrients from them. The method sounds drastic and is one of the reasons why some people with a rich diet remain impoverished.
 
Tapeworms usually make their way into the bodies of people through uncooked or undercooked meat foods, staying on in their intestines. Among the most common tapeworms found in humans are the pork tapeworm, the beef tapeworm, the fish tapeworm and the dwarf tapeworm. Infections involving the pork and beef tapeworms are also called taeniasis.

 
The tapeworm diet has not passed the scrutiny of the FDA, but speculation regarding it has been doing the rounds ever opera singer Maria Callas was found affliced with tapeworms, as she was fond of steak and liver tartare, raw meat dishes.
 
In the Tyra Banks show, the model and actor had interviewed women who stated that they would willingly go on a tapeworm diet and ingest a yellowish worm (likely in egg form, rather than its yards-long full-grown counterpart) in order to lose weight.
 
Before you ingest those tapeworms, listen! Tapeworms do not just cause weight loss, but also malnutrition, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anemia and the formation of fluid-filled cysts that can damage organs, block circulation and cause seizures. Given those risks, it would seem foolish to invest in a tapeworm diet rather than the simple exercise and less calorie diet that been going around for years.