I was searching youtube and I found this old 1985 Grapefruit 45 Diet commercial. Wow… Do you remember them? The one I fell for asked the question, “Do you know anyone that ate 2 (or 3) grapefruits a day and did not lose weight?” I could not answer the question (and figured that it must be a well known thing) and bought the grapefruit pills. Here is the commercial I found.
Did you notice he stated that weight loss was not typical? A real slick operation back then but in my 21 century mind… it was laughable. We have been scammed by so many diet plans that diet advertisers are going to niche markets now… the cleansing crowd, the quick – I want it now crowd… and the “I’ll pay any amount of money do go on the latest hip diet” crowd.
The grapefruit pills had no effect as I recall other then lighting up my already light wallet. Yes I truly fell of the old send me a dollar and I’ll send you instructions how to get rich scam (thankfully I did not really fall for that one too). 
One the one hand it would be nice to have the diet pill market be regulated but then it might trigger foods to become regulated (extrapolating here) and end up driving up costs for us all. I guess the thing to do then as well as now is to follow the credo of “buyer beware!”
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nice article about grapefruit…very informative and beneficial for me…thx
Hi Susan, I’m glad it was helpful… it was a fun time. I guess there will be more fad diets like this though.
i would not be using Diet Pills that much because they are sometimes dangerous specially if they come from China..’;
Beautiful website, I must read this really slow. People should never forget the importance of a balanced life. And from time to time a healthy eating plan cannot do such harm, just try it.
we always use grapefruit on our dessert and this is a fruit that is full of antioxidants too.,”.