Vintage Weight Loss: Sanitized Tapeworms

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Vintage Weight Loss: Sanitized Tapeworms :

May 25, 2007

In the early 1900s a "nutrient absorption" product appeared. Call it an early version of Xenical...

"No diet, no baths, no exercise. FAT - the enemy that is shortening your life - BANISHED. How? With sanitized tapeworms - jar-packed"

No baths? What?


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The product appears to be legitimate and was referenced in a 1999 diabetes journal ( PDF )

Approaches to decreasing nutrient absorption date from the early 1900s, when diet treatment with “sanitized tapeworms” was widely advertised.

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