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STORY TIMEWISH TO LOSE?
Wish to lose?
• Obesity• Multiple factors• Complications• Vague advises• High Expectations• Failed Therapies• Desperate attempts
Binging and Purging
• 700 B.C. Rich ancient Romans binge at lavish banquets and then relieved themselves by vomiting so they could return to the feast and continue eating.
• Ancient Egyptians hieroglyphics depicted use of monthly purges to avoid illness.
• 1680’s - “A skeleton clad with skin”• Bulimia Nervosa
Obesity Soaps
• Reduce Fat• Look young• Without Dieting• Without Exercises• Harmless• Never Fails• ?????
Fat-off Obesity Cream
• Anti-obesity cream• Locally applied• Use in tub-bath• No Dieting• No Exercise• Result in a month• ?????
Quackery Medicines
• Reduce through Listening• Play the Record daily• Develop Dislike for fattening foods• No need of will power
• Many Claims of fat reduction• Unknown contents of tablets• Advertising Tricks• Doctors endorsements
Control Hunger and Overeating
• Ayds Candies• Used by celebrities• False claims
Banned Later…
Bile Beans
• 1890s Bile Beans• Laxative and Tonic• Made By Charles Forde• Unknown Veg source• To disperse unwanted fat• Purify and enrich blood• Found to be fraud• Available till 1980
Use of Appliances
• 1900• Rubber Garments• Harness• Magnet Belts• Weight Reducing?• Nonscientific• Advertised well
Exercise to reduce weight?
• Exercises• Expectations• Unproven• ? Use
• Avoid Exercises
1900 - “Sanitized tapeworm" pills
• To Ingest beef tapeworm cysts • Tapeworms mature in the
intestine• Eat away all the food
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1900 - “Sanitized tapeworm" pills
• Once the desired weight was shed • Anti-parasitic medicine was given,• Hopefully killing off the tapeworms. • Variety of dangerous abdominal and
rectal complications to excrete them.
Mid-1950s - Opera singer Maria Callas dropped 65 pounds on the Tapeworm Diet,
Lucky Strike Cigarettes
• 1925 - The Lucky Strike cigarette brand launches
• "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" - campaign
• Capitalizing on nicotine's appetite-suppressing superpowers.
Ear Stapling
• Ear stapling to suppresses your appetite. • Kept for six weeks to three months
Acupuncture
Crazy even today….
• Plastic tongue patch• Created by a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, • Patch is sewn onto the tongue with six
stitches in about 10 minutes, 2000 Dollars• It makes eating solid food so painful• Forced to adhere to a liquid-only diet • Which supplies only 800 calories a day.
WISH TO
LOSE?