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You are not the first person to ask "How can I lose weight?" and you are unlikely to be the last.
The question being asked today by many people is "Does hoodia work?
If you were to go back in time, you’d only have to replace the trend of the day with hoodia gordonii.
There have been weight loss products for as long as people have wanted to lose weight. |
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The History of Weight Loss
The first products intended for weight reduction were sold in the late 1800's and the early 1900's. Most of these were based on a thyroid extract. Like some of the so-called "natural" diet pills in later years, these dieting products, the most notorious being Kellogg's Safe Fat Reducer (created to take advantage of the Kellogg name which was already famous), weren't nearly as safe as they looked. The AMA (American Medical Association) eventually revealed that use of the thyroid ingredient could cause hypertension, stroke and cardiac arrest. If used over a long enough period of time, it could even damage the thyroid itself. The formula was later revised and sold as a laxative.
For a while, there was a shortage of weight loss products on the market. Marjorie Hamilton changed all that. She offered the public a weight loss system based on the use of Epsom bath salts. The idea was that the salts had the ability to actually pull fat out of a person through skin pores, leaving it floating on top of the bath water. Although this premise may seem silly to us today, it was the advice that Hamilton offered along with her weight loss solution that put her decades ahead of her time. Hamilton suggested that people wanting to lose weight should exercise and avoid certain foods such as breads and pastries. This made her one of the first diet gurus, a predecessor to the creators of such plans as Weight Watchers and the
Sonoma diet. Unfortunately, the days of nutrition plans like the Zone diet food guidelines were still a long way off. For many decades, amphetamines were the primary form of weight-loss therapy, despite the dangers of abuse.
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