Early diet pills claimed to contain tape worms
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I was wandering around on snopes.com just now because I find that site a little bit addictive. I picked up a bit of trivia that is both interesting and slightly disgusting. It seems that around the beginning of the 20th century some companies were advertising diet pills that worked because the capsule actually contained a tape worm.
Umm. Yuck!
Obviously, this was way before the reign if the Food and Drug Administration and the government’s enforcement of truth in advertising. Those were the days when people would sell stuff like either whiskey or tomato juice under the label of “cold medicine”.
One has to wonder who in their right mind would take a diet pill BECAUSE someone said it contained a tape worm.
Everyone knows that the best diet pills don’t move when you break them open. 
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