Quantcast Vegetarian StarFreaky Eaters Daniel

TLC’s Freaky Eaters features Dr. Dow and JJ Virgin coming to the intervention of people with some strange and dangerous eating compulsions. There’s a young lady who needs 30 cans of cola a day. The cheeseburger addict. And tonight at 7PM, there’s Daniel, a young man who is compelled to eat raw meat.

Listening to Daniel describe this obsession with phrases like “one of those quiet things where you do it on your own” and “this is nice.”, one could almost make frat boy jokes about the pastime that didn’t start until he left the confines of his parents’ home.

However, eating raw meat is no joke and Daniel is putting himself at risk for consuming harmful bacteria and becoming ill with infections like Trichinellosis, also called trichinosis, which result in eating uncooked meat. Not that the stuff’s any healthier cooked…

From TLC:

“Using intense nutritional and behavioral therapy, they attempt to convince Daniel to give up his life-threatening obsession before it’s too late.”

A clip from a man who eats approximately 1,400 cheeseburgers a year is below.

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