A student from Blackburn in England has admitted to eating
thousands of insects in a bid to prevent high cholesterol and heart
disease.
Peter Bickerton has admitted to eating tens of
thousands of insects in a bid to keep his heart healthy, and says he's
probably eaten more than 10,000 crickets, 5,000 locusts and 1,000 wax
worms.
The 24-year-old's daily diet consists of meals
such as freeze-dried locust oatmeal for breakfast, cricket sandwiches
for lunch and wax worm tacos for his dinner.
Mr
Bickerton - who lives in Blackburn in north-west England - thinks that
eating insects is the most effective way of lowering the risk of high
cholesterol and other heart problems.
He said: "It all
started when my uncle died of a heart attack at the young age of 45 ...
We all had our cholesterol levels tested and my mum and each of her
seven siblings were diagnosed with dangerously high levels of
cholesterol.
"Their diagnosis really jolted me. I was
still young and I knew that I had to act now to avoid suffering the same
fate as the rest of my family."
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