I’m Glad I’m Living in the 21st Century

Posted By elissa on Dec 28, 2010 | 1 comment

Among other things, living in the 21st century means there are some standards in place for diet supplements. At least they don’t contain ingredients like this (click to enlarge): 

How common were such “supps?” Tough to say… according to Snopes.com:

As unlikely as this must sound, there might be some reason to believe tapeworm diet pills were once marketed in the United States between 1900 and 1920. A number of sources have indicated encountering advertisements for such products, but whether the products advertised actually matched their descriptions would be difficult to verify. (Just because an ad for a diet pill proclaimed the product contained tapeworms doesn’t mean it really did – duping people into buying medicinal nostrums by way of making false and exaggerated claims was standard procedure in the days before government regulation of food and drug products.)

LOL – I think I’ll take today’s crop of supps – warts and all – over those available in the so-called “good old days.”

(via Sociological Images)