Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!jjchew From: jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: What's in those new diet-while-you-sleep potions? Message-ID: <245@utcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 17:04:52 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.245 Posted: Tue Dec 4 17:04:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 17:46:09 EST References: <141@ihu1m.UUCP> <1542@pur-phy.UUCP> Reply-To: jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew) Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 11 > Several TV stations in the Chicago area have ads for get-thin-quick > elixirs that you take before going to sleep. They claim you wake up > pounds lighter. (You'll certainly wake up dollars lighter.) I'm real > curious--what is this stuff really? Hmm. How long has it been since tapeworm larvae (eggs?) were advertised as an effective crash diet? -- university of toronto computing services john j. chew, iii {cbosgd,decvax,harpo,ihnp4,utcsrgv,{allegra,linus}!utzoo}!utcs!jjchew