WARNING! Don't Read If You Are Squeamish!
By Brian
@wolfie34 (26771)
United Kingdom
August 27, 2008 10:52am CST
I have warned you!!!
This is about cannibalism, well sort of and still on the subject of blood, I want to know whether there are any calories in eating bits of ourselves?
Obviously when you are stranded in the middle of nowhere and to keep warm you have to eat another human, you have no choice, either turn into cannibalism or die! So obviously our bodies provide substinance
We have no predators, so there are no dinosaurs to eat us!!!
But have you ever wondered what the nutrient values are in eating ourselves?
For example a pint of blood
Eating your bogies/snot
Eating your skin
Eating you fingernails
Come on come on don't go ewwwwwww, a lot of us do it in our lives, go on, we taste blood, even urine? even bite our skin and nails and eat them? Pick our nose and well you get the picture!
So have you ever thought about it, go on you know you have!
Told you, if you are cursing me now, I did put a warning in the title so if you have read this far and going all green then it's your fault NOT mine!
I think it must be the mossie bites turning me funny!
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16 responses
@bdugas (3578)
• United States
27 Aug 08
Don't know and don't care to find out. This is one discusting post, but in freedom of speech you are entitled to ask such things. I wish I had not read but then was curious. Will learn to stay away from things like this in the future. I won't put myself into such a perdicterment as to have to do such a thing.
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@EnslinPorter (1718)
• Philippines
27 Aug 08
Hi! This is an interesting thought! 
Among those you've listed, I think the only thing that has calories in it would be the skin. I don't know, maybe because when we eat animal skin we get calories from those too? 
I'm not sure about the bones. It does have some minerals in it like calcium, phosphorus, etc. but I don't know if they can be absorbed by the body at that state. As for blood, maybe it will only help in hydration but since water has some calories too (I think), maybe blood has some calories as well. Erm...and for booger, I think it has no calories. It's mostly dirt stuck inside our noses 
Among those you've listed, I think the only thing that has calories in it would be the skin. I don't know, maybe because when we eat animal skin we get calories from those too? I'm not sure about the bones. It does have some minerals in it like calcium, phosphorus, etc. but I don't know if they can be absorbed by the body at that state. As for blood, maybe it will only help in hydration but since water has some calories too (I think), maybe blood has some calories as well. Erm...and for booger, I think it has no calories. It's mostly dirt stuck inside our noses 2 people like this
@EnslinPorter (1718)
• Philippines
27 Aug 08
You're welcome! Well, you did put on a warning. Squeamish people will just have to read it at their own risk and blame themselves if they do
Well, you did put on a warning. Squeamish people will just have to read it at their own risk and blame themselves if they do 2 people like this
@barbiegirl13 (1588)
• United States
27 Aug 08
I Am sure that there are calories in these things. After all, it takes us putting calories in our mouths to make them. But yuck!! I have never thought of such things. Yucky!
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
27 Aug 08
It's mealtime here in about 10 minutes - but you didn't manage to put me off my food
I could add some more examples of human waste which we regularly consume but i can only guess you left them out purposely as they are even more foul than those you did mention.
I conclude there are very few calories in anything human but then I remember a film about a plane crash in the Andes where the survivors lived on the meat of the fellow passengers which had been frozen in the snow and was fit to eat. If they lived on that one can assume that flesh contains calories.
Next topic please because between this and mosquitoes I don't know which is worse!
Have fun! xxx
I could add some more examples of human waste which we regularly consume but i can only guess you left them out purposely as they are even more foul than those you did mention.
I conclude there are very few calories in anything human but then I remember a film about a plane crash in the Andes where the survivors lived on the meat of the fellow passengers which had been frozen in the snow and was fit to eat. If they lived on that one can assume that flesh contains calories.
Next topic please because between this and mosquitoes I don't know which is worse!
Have fun! xxx
@jinxky (2248)
• Philippines
28 Aug 08
my mom is watching a documentary, the topic is cannibalism. she told me about what she have watched, here's the story. this man is a cannibal & he's starving for human flesh. now he's searching online & looking for people who's willing to die or should i say, willing to be eaten. then he found out this man, he's willing to be eaten. then the cannibal man killed this guy, but this guy told the cannibal that "eat me so that i'll be part of you forever" waaaaa.. isn't it crazy & it's kinda ewww.. imagine he's happy to die & glad to be eaten.. that sucks! i can't imagine that.. 
lol
lol
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
28 Aug 08
haha.. I know about this story my dear ^_^ I have seen on the documentary too.. lol =D I guess he is just being faithful to that extend that they dun ever wanna leave each other.. hehe =D If i'm not wrong, they are gays.. hehe
@goddessjes (788)
• Philippines
27 Aug 08
wow, you just killed an appetite, man. ahahah.
but it's actually a smart thought. worst case scenario, without a source of energy, would you feast on your body to survive?
probably the first thing you'd cannibalize would be any source of fluid.
but i don't want to think and analyze the details. if i get there, that's when i start thinking about it. ahaha.
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@mummymo (23706)
•
30 Aug 08
LOL If I didn't know better I;d think you had been experimenting with illegal substances! lol Anyway I expect if we eat bits of ourselves there would be as much calorific and nutritional content as if we eat pork, beef or chicken! I was going to try and research it for you but I am too busy giggling at the thought of how many people were picking their noses as they read it! Hugs xxx
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@drzeuss (130)
• United States
28 Aug 08
My first question is what do people think it means when they see "WARNING! Don't Read If You Are Squeamish!" i mean, c'mon dubya tea eff.
i was hoping you had the caloric content at the end of the post. i can say i've never, in my adult life, ate boogers. And don't plan on it even if i'm out in the wilderness with nothing else to eat. For one, they are boogers...secondly they are so small i couldn't think that they could provide enough sustanence.
Same for fingernails which i doubt has any kind of nutritional value. Just a hunch.
Blood could be a good source of "food" but if i'm heading out into the woods and there might be a possibility that i might get stranded without food...im bringing someone with me...just...in...case.
All my friends have been warned. If we somewhere with nothing to eat and about to die...they're dinner. lol
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
28 Aug 08
LOL =D OUr body system is the worst kind of meat among all others and our body are full of the bad things rather than the good things.. haha =D
UNless one is very health conscious, if not, imagine the amount of fats in our body, and amount of cholestrol in our blood, from the food that we eat everyday without control.. lol =D
Just by cutting ourselves up, the whole layer of white fats, so soft and tender spilling out of the body, and blood oozing out just like water mixing with oil.. lol =D Who will ever wann eat that just by thinking of all this?? lol
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
28 Aug 08
Yes there are calories. humans are just like any other animal. Blood and snot is totally bad for you and it will make you sick if you eat it and fingernails don't digest, so that would also be bad for you to eat. As for the skin and other meat, I am not sure. I have heard that it is really bad for you and will give you diseases, but that might just be a lie to try and keep people from practicing cannibalism. Well you have a very strange mind to have thought of this topic, but it is definitely an original.
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
28 Aug 08
Oh yeah, but the thing about urine. Urine is actually ok for you to drink because apparhently it comes out sterilized, but I heard that you can only drink it like 3 times or whatever and then it becomes bad for you. Well either way, I am not about to start drinking my pee.
@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
27 Aug 08
OMG! I know you said this is not for the squeamish, but do you not know that when you write something like that it is just going to draw the squeamish in? I mean really, how could somebody read something like that and notthink, "Oh, well, how bad can it really be?"
Ewwww! What made this thought even pop into your mind?
Never mind. I don't think I even need to know.
And, I thought I came up with some pretty twisted ideas!
Ewwww! What made this thought even pop into your mind?
Never mind. I don't think I even need to know.
And, I thought I came up with some pretty twisted ideas!1 person likes this
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
27 Aug 08
Well you know what they say about curiousity, I think if someone put that I would be reading more!!!! It's like telling people NOT to do something and they immediately do it, or is that children, oooops I'll get a telling off for that I'm sure, twisted me????? Oh dear you know me too well already LOL! Twisted mind, maybe, inquisitive mind, definitely!
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
27 Aug 08
I actually took that as a compliment, don't take it back please!!!, I can be twisted at times, it's the way I tick, when life throws crap at you, you have to have a sense of humour and a little twistedness help! So please don't apologize and I have a fascination with the macabre and horror too! Laughing at horror films does make me a little twisted I agree!!! But I just love em
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@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
27 Aug 08
*L* I never actually said you were twisted, did I? I just thought with MY twisted little mind, I would come in and see what it was all about.
I like twisted actually. Even if it is a bit gross, I find the fact that someone actually thinks about some of this stuff, fascinating.
@BigBadWolf_aus (140)
• Australia
28 Aug 08
Wow, now I could not eat my dinner, right after reading your post. Thanks man, but I would never ever eat a fellow human being and its wastes, I'd rather die of starvation..
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
27 Aug 08
Interesting thought, thank you, I never thought of it like that, some parts of us could be highly toxic to eat. I watch my weight and I am conscious of what I eat and the nutrients, i.e. carbs before the gym, protein after. Everything we consume is calorie orientated, everything has calories, well apart from water, I just wondered ironically coming home from the gym this scenario!
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@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
31 Dec 10
Honestly, I have never thought about this at all. I don't even eat or taste my own wastes- except for blood. 
I also think that the instinct for people to fight fr their life really stands out so they eat each other- i hope I never do come to a situation like that..
I also think that the instinct for people to fight fr their life really stands out so they eat each other- i hope I never do come to a situation like that.. @hiddenwing (3719)
• China
28 Aug 08
We are mosquito's candy. Thus mosuitos know exactly who is more delicous!
Lol, have a nice day!
@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
28 Aug 08
i don't know about the calorie content for all these human bits wolfie.i do chew my nails,and had a bit of blood here and there.i did see a article that drinking your own urine was good for gum disease,but i don't think i could do that,i think i would rather go to a peridontist than drink my own urine,and i hate any sort of dentist.cheers sue
