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After dining at a trending « gut-healthy » restaurant, Frances experiences increasingly painful digestive issues. Judged healthy by multiple doctors, she begins to wonder if she's going mad or if her pain is part of a larger conspiracy.
Feature | Body Horror / Satire
This is a body horror for the stomach ache girlies. From keto, plant-based, lactose free, gluten free, carnivore and juice cleanses, we try every diet under the sun to try to feel less bloated and more energized, but it seems like the more we try, the worse it gets. I’ve often wondered if one day during a dreaded colonic, they’d pull out a two-meter tapeworm out of my swollen intestines. At least I’d finally have an answer for the random nausea, energy crashes and sugar cravings.
And while more people than ever are diagnosed with IBS, obesity or eating disorders, the health and dieting industry makes billions of dollars a year. THE SLIME DIET asks, what if these conditions were created by this industry? What if a health guru led trendy restaurant chain planted undetectable worms that made us addicted to their supplements, powders and smoothies? What if capitalism and Gwyneth Paltrow were behind our stomach aches all along??