Loss Strategies From The Previous

Loss Strategies From The Previous

02/26/2014 09:38 am ET Updated Feb 26, 2014
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Ever since female beauty - and worth - became equated with thinness , ladies have tried some actually unbelievable methods to lose weight.
In recent months, Jessica Alba wore a corset for 3 months straight after childbirth to regain her shape, and a Beverly Hills surgeon claimed that patients are paying him $2,000 to stitch postage-stamp sized squares of mesh onto their tongues with a view to power them onto a liquid-solely weight loss program.
Sadly, as horrifying and weird as these tales sound now, they're hardly remoted incidents. And whereas we might like to suppose that women's relationships with meals - or no less than the advertising surrounding some parts of the food plan industry - have gotten slightly extra sane in the last few years, again in the day, individuals tried some significantly wacky issues to augment their bodies.
Listed here are seven unbelievable methods ladies tried to lose weight previously, guaranteed to make you want nothing but a healthy relationship with your figure:
1. The "Spot Reducer"
In keeping with an ad placed within the Oct. 1, 1950 issue of The Milwaukee Sentinel , "thousands" have misplaced weight by using the gadget, "handsomely manufactured from lightweight aluminium and rubber," to "break down fatty tissues."
We suspect the "Spot Reducer" doubled as a somewhat scary vibrator.
2. Surprise Sauna Sizzling Pants
The premise behind these terrifying garments is that they force you to sweat, thus ridding you of water weight and reducing undesirable inches around your hips and thighs. An identical product was marketed in the 1972 Spiegel Christmas Catalog - as a result of nothing says "I like you" like pants manufactured from heavy-gauge vinyl. These might have truly helped customers drop some water weight, but solely temporarily. (And no weight loss is value carrying such a heinous outfit.)
3. "Slenderizing Salons"
No, these are not devices of torture. Within the forties, ladies voluntarily went to "slenderizing salons" to have their "problem areas" massaged by a wide range of Edward Scissorhands-esque machines that claimed to stimulate muscle groups and break down fats. We remain deeply skeptical.
4. Anklets
According to this vintage advert, "cankles" have long been a problem. But by no means fear, these "medicated" anklets and different compression clothes (the neckpiece is especially scary) had been invented to "dissolve" your excess fat. Fairly sure that is not how fats works...
5. Vibrating Belts.
Merchandise like the Nadco Train Belt promised to "vibrate" your hips and thighs to slimness. Fascinated events can nonetheless buy one in every of these contraptions on eBay. (We recommend not doing so.)
6. "Fat-lowering" soaps.
Merchandise like this La-Mar "reducing" soap advertised within the 1920s claimed to magically wash away "superfluous" body fat. Sounds perfectly reliable.
7. Skinny Music
There is no such thing as a information as to how this document, produced by Wallace Lowering Data, is meant to work. An accompanying exercise regime? Hypnosis? Brainwashing messages? We'll most likely by no means know.
What other scary weight-loss tactics from the previous should we find out about? Remark under, or tweet @HuffPostWomen !
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Runk is the star of a Might 2013 H&M swimwear campaign that gained widespread media attention for not relegating the gorgeous size 12 mannequin to the "plus-measurement" pages of their web site. In an interview with activist group SPARK , Runk told a young blogger: "I keep in mind usually feeling like I ought to be unhappy with my physique, however it was complicated, as a result of I never thought there was anything wrong with it till folks began speaking about it." In a chunk for the BBC, Runk wrote of her newfound media attention: "This is exactly the form of factor I've always needed to accomplish, showing women that it is OKAY to be confident even if you happen to're not the favored notion of 'excellent.'... There isn't any have to glamorise one physique type and slam one other."
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