{"id":4342,"date":"2010-12-28T04:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:57:13","slug":"glad-living-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/glad-living-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Glad I&#8217;m Living in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things,\u00a0living in the 21st century means there are some standards in place for diet supplements. At least they don&#8217;t contain ingredients like this (click to enlarge):\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/files\/2010\/12\/tapeworm_ad.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/files\/2010\/12\/tapeworm_ad-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Tapeworm Ad\" width=\"179\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/files\/2010\/12\/tapeworm_ad-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/files\/2010\/12\/tapeworm_ad.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How common were such &#8220;supps?&#8221; Tough to say&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/horrors\/vanities\/tapeworm.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Snopes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;t mean it really did &#8211; 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.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL &#8211; I think I&#8217;ll take today&#8217;s crop of supps &#8211; warts and all &#8211; over those available in the so-called &#8220;good old days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/26\/every-woman-has-a-figure-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sociological Images<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things,\u00a0living in the 21st century means there are some standards in place for diet supplements. At least they don&#8217;t contain ingredients like this (click to enlarge):\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,27,28,29],"tags":[1242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}