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.,”.
Diet pills might help you to reduce your weight but they have nasty side effects too*,-
I think lose weight is not too hard as long as you exercise everyday and stay away from bad food. Unfortunately, this seems to hard for many people.
i like to make some Grapefruit tea at home, it taste really great.~~
diet pills should be avoided coz they can give some nasty side effects~-:
we have a grapefruit plant on our home backyard and the fresh fruits taste so much better~`-
I remember the Grapefruit diet pill, I was a fat child in 1985, I wanted to lose weight over that summber because I was going to High School, well, my mom bought these pills and over the summer I lost about 35 lbs, I went from a size 16 to size 8-9 or so, no one knew who I was when I went to back to school (High School) when the summer was over except my close friends that I hung out with all summer that witnessed the transition, I am soooo thankful for those pills because I had a happier high school social life because of them. I since then had become a plus size adult and had NEVER forgot about these pills I have been telling the story about these miraculous Grapefruit diet pills for years, In the last few years I have gotten into natural cures and have been working out and have gone from a size 22-24 to a size 10, I want to a bit more, my goal is a size 7-8, you know “High School skinny”. I had looked high and low for these Grapefruit diet pills though and always had wondered what happened to them, my mom forgot who and where she ordered them from all those years ago, and today I ate a grapefruit and thought about them and said to myself “oh yeah I can google them”, now with the world wide web and all (lol). So here we are. After reading a few articles I figured out what happened to the pills. and I was compelled to tell my story, since I have become and adult I have learned that when the “powers that be” witness you making large sums of money and they can’t get thier hands in your pocket (wink, wink) they will come up with some way to burst your bubble, and lastly I ‘d just like to say when a product is not “FDA approved” THAT IS NOT A BAD THING, SOMETIMES IT’S BETTER!!! (let it marinate, sleep on it, lmao)….Truthfully, Jean
diet pills are sometimes dangerous so you should be very careful when you are taking it `
i can munch a lot of grapefruit in a couple of minutes, that is really my favorite fruit -;,