How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide:

Based upon what I read, and what I learned about the hookworm I decided that I was going to try and infest myself with hookworm in an attempt to cure my asthma. I was not willing to wait ten or more years for the drug companies to bring a drug to market. It was obvious to me that hookworm, for a healthy adult with a good diet, are quite benign. This account details my experiences, how I went about it, and the things I have done since infestation to calibrate my level of infestation so that in the end I was able to cure my asthma and hay fever with hookworm. These same techniques are of course applicable to any hookworm infestation, whether you want to control asthma, hay fever, colitis, Crohn's disease or Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

Amazing. Talk about thinking outside the box. Having had a couple (isolated) bouts with not being able to breathe, I do not envy asthma sufferers. If I couldn't breathe, I'd consider it. The guy even teaches a course.

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One of my favorite healthy snacks is a swab of nut butter, usually almond butter or, if I'm feeling particularly decadent, cashew butter. While they are tasty and great for you (esp. the almond butter; cashews are fattier), they are expensive (esp. the almond butter, which you would think had a fine gold powder mixed into it at today's prices). Enter sunflower seed butter! Definitely the closest match in taste and consistency to peanut butter, just about as cheap, and check the nutritional profile:

The above comes courtesy of Sunbutter. And here's a bonus for you folks with peanut allergies (like my four-year-old). Unlike all other nut butters (in my experience), it's actually possible to find sunflower seed butter that's peanut free (the nut butters always have the "processed in the same facility as..." warning)! And the taste really is close to peanut butter. If you eat it right off the spoon you can tell, but with bread and jelly it's almost indistinguishable. To a grown-up, anyway. Believe me, I know all about how infinitesimally picky kids can be when it comes to food.