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09-16-2007, 02:23 PM
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Come on Spring!
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An Old Fashioned Diet Aid
Just for fun, here's an ad from an old newspaper around 1910.
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09-16-2007, 02:45 PM
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Ewwww... people actually bought and swallowed tape worms to be thin??!! I had no idea!!! How nasty!
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09-16-2007, 02:56 PM
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Gonna Be Gorgeous!
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That is REALLY gross. I wonder if they could feel them once they swallowed them!
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09-16-2007, 03:08 PM
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I think that my Mom told me about this a long time ago. She believed that Elizabeth Taylor tried it.
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09-16-2007, 04:53 PM
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My biology teacher in 9th grade told me that someone in the 70s placed an ad in the back of a beauty magazine for a diet pill that guaranteed to let you eat all you want and still lose weight, much like the claims in this ad.
Turns out, the capsule merely contained a section of tapeworm. The woman who purchased the pill from the ad sued the company because she ended up looking emaciated, found out she had a tapeworm, and ended up having to have a large section of her intestine removed.
My biology teacher has since been proven to tell her share of tall tales, but this one sounds like it COULD have some truth to it...
Last edited by LindseyLouWho; 09-16-2007 at 04:54 PM.
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09-16-2007, 09:10 PM
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it's always something
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09-16-2007, 09:55 PM
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Thankfully, I am not THAT desperate!
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09-16-2007, 10:06 PM
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I'm not nuts, I'm happy!
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That nasty thing is, people do this today. Blech
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09-17-2007, 03:36 PM
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I wonder if they also dragged their butts along the carpeting in those days like dogs do when they have worms?
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09-17-2007, 05:39 PM
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I've heard that people really use to do that. Don't know how truthful it is?
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09-18-2007, 12:52 PM
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I am pretty sure my aunt did this when she was a teenager (in the late 1960's or early 1970's). She grew accustomed to eating whatever she wanted and losing weight...so when she had to have the worm removed (don't know how that happened) she kept eating like she had been and gained all the weight back and then some. She is now about 350 llbs at 5'2".
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09-18-2007, 01:09 PM
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no  I think I will stick to this  and  and  and less of this  and this  and this  and skip the tape worm all together lol 
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09-18-2007, 02:42 PM
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Oh man....I have a severe worm phobia as it is, and that just made it worse.
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09-18-2007, 03:57 PM
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hara hachi bu
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Sanitized, jar-packed, and easy to swallow! LOL
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09-18-2007, 04:08 PM
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Don't know if this is true but if it is YUCK! I totally feel like you do, Aphil.
This is interesting... it's not necessarily true OR FALSE!
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/tapeworm.asp
Last edited by CinnamonGirl; 09-18-2007 at 04:10 PM.
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