Go eat a lizard today..
I know what you are thinking, this guy must be crazy, eat lizards? Eat those creeping smelly little bastards..  Over my dead body! but continue reading, you stand to gain a lot from this interesting post..
It will interest you to know that lizards really have advantages, eating them and also having them in your surroundings, maybe when you finish reading this post, maybe you will go grab a lizard and cook it up boiled, fried, you can even add spices.. (yuck!)

Advantages of eating lizards
 1. Prevent asthma attack
Asthma is an allergy which occur in respiratory tract and usually people with asthma will be difficult to breath during asthma attack. Eating lizard meat is believed can cure and prevent asthma attack.


 2. Heal skin disease 
 People in Indonesia used to eat lizard meat to heal itchy skin and some other skin disease such as eczema, and psoriasis. They even drain the meat then turned into powder and put in capsule skin, why? It is believed that meat of most reptile such as snake, lizard or iguana can cure skin problem.

 3. It can fight cancer
It  may sounds impossible  to believe that lizard meat can be used to treat and fight cancer but a cancer patient in Bogor, Indonesia has proved this benefits. A doctor in a hospital suggested a cancer patient to eat lizard meat. Later the cancer patient ate 3 lizards meat everyday and after six months doctor examined him and it was a shocked that he was totally recovered from cancer.

 4. It can also cure acne
As mentioned before that lizard meat can be eaten to cure skin disease. This benefits including acne treatment. Eating lizard meat everyday can reduce the inflammation on skin and remove acne from face. Some people also use lizard blood to cure acne.

 5. It Promotes long life
A news that published in Daily Mail Uk reported that the oldest man on earth which live in Bolivia has passed his 123 years and survived cause he regularly eat lizard meat until now. This man still alive today and has 16 grandchildren and 39 great-grand-children. He still strong enough to walk along some kilometers everyday. Isn’t it amazing?

 6. It cures epilepsy 
That myth that lizards cause epilepsy cause epilepsy is..  wrong! It actually cures it.. People in Asia has used lizard meat as medicine to cure many health problem such as epilepsy. Epilepsy is a disorder which occur in neurological system. Eating lizard that contains protein regularly can help to cure neurological disorder and maintain healthy nerves

Other notable mentions are It provides energy, it improves stamina

Important note:According to drhealth.com,  "eating lizard meat may give harmful effect to the body. The main cause that makes eating lizard can be harmful is the presence of pathogen bacteria such as Salmonella. Salmonella is a type of bacteria which can cause many health problem in human body such as thypoid fever and diarrhea. It also contains certain protein that may trigger allergic reaction in the body. People with allergy history should concern about health risk and think twice to try eating lizard"

So you are ready to start eating lizards right? Lizards require a special way to catch and cook, lizards can be caught by using trap or shot, you can also get them in some markets, just make sure it was properly prepared and doesn’t contain poisonous bacteria.
After you  get the lizard meat you should know how to process and cook it. Follow these tips before you eating lizard :
Before you cook lizard you should cut the head and the gut of lizard. Don’t forget to cut the anus as well
Divide the lizard body and separate the legs and tail by cutting them
Remember don’t use the same cutting board which you use to cut lizard with other kind of food such as vegetable. This may cause cross contamination
Boil lizard meat for 20 minutes until the skin get loose and it sterile from any kind of bacteria
Remove the skin from lizard body and then you can cook it just as you wish. You can fry or stir it, its up to you.
So what are you waiting for? Where are your stones and your slingshot? Let's go get ourselves some yummy lizards!

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