Losing weight is dangerous obsession for some Chinese women

"Have you ever tried to lose weight?" Ask this question to any Chinese woman and prepare for a barrage of passionate responses.

At the end of the 1990s in China, it was all the rage for women to take special formula teas and pills to control their weight. Shortly after, the more painful option of acupuncture emerged as a popular choice.

And now, we have the opportunity to eat potentially lethal parasitic roundworm eggs.