History of Treatment of Obesity is very interesting. Many outdated attempts teach us the fallacies and side effects of such treatment.

2. Wish to lose?
• Obesity
• Multiple factors
• Complications
• Vague advises
• High Expectations
• Failed Therapies
• Desperate attempts

3. Binging and Purging
• 700 B.C. Rich ancient Romans binge
at lavish banquets and then relieved
themselves by vomiting so they could
return to the feast and continue eating.
• Ancient Egyptians hieroglyphics
depicted use of monthly purges to
avoid illness.
• 1680’s - “A skeleton clad with skin”
• Bulimia Nervosa

4. Obesity Soaps
• Reduce Fat
• Look young
• Without Dieting
• Without Exercises
• Harmless
• Never Fails
• ?????

5. Fat-off Obesity Cream
• Anti-obesity cream
• Locally applied
• Use in tub-bath
• No Dieting
• No Exercise
• Result in a month
• ?????

6. Quackery Medicines
• Reduce through Listening
• Play the Record daily
• Develop Dislike for fattening foods
• No need of will power
• Many Claims of fat reduction
• Unknown contents of tablets
• Advertising Tricks
• Doctors endorsements

7. Control Hunger and Overeating
• Ayds Candies
• Used by celebrities
• False claims

8. Bile Beans
• 1890s Bile Beans
• Laxative and Tonic
• Made By Charles Forde
• Unknown Veg source
• To disperse unwanted fat
• Purify and enrich blood
• Found to be fraud
• Available till 1980

9. Use of Appliances
• 1900
• Rubber Garments
• Harness
• Magnet Belts
• Weight Reducing?
• Nonscientific
• Advertised well

10. Exercise to reduce weight?
• Exercises
• Expectations
• Unproven
• ? Use
• Avoid Exercises

11. 1900 - “Sanitized tapeworm" pills
• To Ingest beef tapeworm cysts
• Tapeworms mature in the
intestine
• Eat away all the food
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12. 1900 - “Sanitized tapeworm" pills
• Once the desired weight was shed
• Anti-parasitic medicine was given,
• Hopefully killing off the tapeworms.
• Variety of dangerous abdominal and
rectal complications to excrete them.
Mid-1950s - Opera singer Maria Callas
dropped 65 pounds on the Tapeworm Diet,

13. Lucky Strike Cigarettes
• 1925 - The Lucky Strike cigarette
brand launches
• "Reach for a Lucky instead of a
sweet" - campaign
• Capitalizing on nicotine's appetite-
suppressing superpowers.

14. Ear Stapling
• Ear stapling to suppresses your appetite.
• Kept for six weeks to three months
Acupuncture

15. Crazy even today….
• Plastic tongue patch
• Created by a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon,
• Patch is sewn onto the tongue with six
stitches in about 10 minutes, 2000 Dollars
• It makes eating solid food so painful
• Forced to adhere to a liquid-only diet
• Which supplies only 800 calories a day.