Do you know the word of “cannibalism”? Cannibalism means human eat human’s meat. Is it a real thing? What will happen to our bodies if we eat human’s meat? I will talk about the history of cannibalism and the influence of cannibalism to our bodies.

In the 15th century, Europeans thought that they found a panacea! This medicine can cure all diseases like bleeding, nausea and so on. The name of the medicine is MAMIA, made from mummies. Using mummies to make medicines was common in the era.

The word of “cannibal” which means people who eat human’s meat came from an era of Columbus. After Columbus went to the West Indies, he reported Spanish queen that there are caribs who attack other tribes and catch them, then eat. The word of carib altered “cannibal” in the course of telling the word to Europe.

Other types of cannibalism are that people eat other human’s meat not to die of hunger and using human’s livers, gallstones and human’s brains fat to make medicine. Moreover, in China, cannibalism had been accepted since 2000 years ago. What the most common type of cannibalism was that parents eat their children to cure their illness. However, parents eat only children’s finger or thigh, so children did not die.

On the other hand, is there any disadvantages when we eat human’s meat? In reality, we will have Kuru when we eat the meat. Kuru is a kind of disease because of cannibalism and it is an endemic disease in Papua New Guinea. There are Fores who eat dead bodies when they hold a funeral. This action causes Kuru. When we have this disease, firstly, we are difficult to walk stably and pronounce and shaking. Secondly, we cannot walk by ourselves, shaking hardly, falling into a depression and laughing out of control. Thirdly, we cannot take a seat and speak, wet their pants and so on. Kuru patients usually will die within 3 months to 2 years after onset.

Cannibalism has a long history, but it also has serious disadvantage. In the present day, I do not recommend you to eat human’s meat because we have other meats like pork, beef and chicken instead of human’s meat!