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From: jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: What's in those new diet-while-you-sleep potions?
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 17:04:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 17:04:52 1984
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> 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?

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university of toronto computing services	    john j. chew, iii
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