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Did any of you get ayds?
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peeonme
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Not funny at all.
Yes Sir, I grew up in an Ayds house and many of my neighborhood friends did too.
In an attempt to control her appetite my Mom applied to the Ayds plan through her doctor. During the 1960's, Ayds was serious medicine and was only available by prescription. Mom would go to the chemist every 90 days to receive a new box of Ayds after submitting the completed dose record calendar enclosed inside each box of Ayds candies. Just like a calendar, each time Mom ate a candy it would be recorded on the dose record. Otherwise the prescription could not be renewed.
As a kid, I knew none of this when I discovered my Mom's Ayds hiding place. Each chocolate cube was individually wrapped in waxed paper (this was the 1960's) and tasted like chewy fudge. I ate an entire weeks worth of the candies in one sitting! My Mom was furious with me. Ayds was covered under her medical insurance and she had to explain the circumstances to her doctor.
Ayds candies tasted great and most users ate them with hot coffee or tea. I think of these whenever I have a piece of fudge. I remember how good they tasted but I don't remember any effect on my appetite.
pigface
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Not seen that product. The diet drug commonly sold here was Redupon, but it's active ingredient (ppa) is now banned. The tablets were round and silver - looked just like ball bearings!
Myth among school children were that each tablet contained a tape worm egg, that you could hatch if you did it right.
Myth among school children were that each tablet contained a tape worm egg, that you could hatch if you did it right.
It fascinates me that we turn to chemistry to help us, until we learn of the harm it can cause.
My Mon also used Sucaryl, the artificial sweetener made from sodium cyclamate - banned in 1969 after links to cancer.
LeicsDom
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And of course the Victorians swore by cocaine as a cough cure!
https://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/addiction/addiction2.html
pigface
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Thalidomide, Heroin, benzadrine, and a few others were all once freely available. In our home, chlorodyne was the first choice remedy for diarrhoea.
Eventually, Ayds was sold over-the-counter, without a prescription. However, the unfortunate name soon doomed the product by the 1980's.
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Ya, they had to sell after sales took a nosedive. The new company renamed the product eBola Weight Suppresant.Eventually, Ayds was sold over-the-counter, without a prescription. However, the unfortunate name soon doomed the product by the 1980's.
I don't remember the product as shown in the commercial's in the OP. However, once EddMarkStarr posted the image, I did remember that box. I remember I tasted them. I've always struggled with my weight, so I probably did use them maybe as a kid? No one else in my family had weight issues so it was probably all for me. No doubt it didn't work for me.
I’ve seen the commercials on YouTube. The Nostalgia Critic talked about it. The ads remind me of the Jared Has Aides episode of South Park where Jared Fogle kept telling everyone that he lost weight because he “got aides” (a nutritionist and personal trainer) and everyone thought he meant AIDS.
Once Ayds got FDA approval for over-the-counter sales, (without a prescription), the product could have sold like crazy, but the events of the '80's saw sales drop like a stone.
Meal replacement diet milkshakes were all the rage in the 1960's. Metrecal and Sego were everywhere.
Wow, that brings back a memory as a kid. I don't remember which school year(s), but it would have been in the 4th to 6th grade. I was sent to school with a lunch box with Sego in a thermas and a few pieces of fruit and veggies. I got to hate that Sego so much. I finally quit drinking it and so all I had for lunch each day was the fruits and veggies while everyone else ate a hot lunch. On the way back to the classroom I would stop at the bathroom and pour the stuff down the drain. I couple times (or more) I forgot to dump it. My parent called the school and asked that the "lunch lady" check to make sure I was drinking the stuff. So then I had to remember to dump it on the walk home from school.
Oh sure. I remember Ayds commercials. I don't remember it ever requiring a prescription, but I'm sure you're right. It was before the disease was upon the scene. After that, the commercials were creepy. I don't think they lasted much longer.
Metrical and Sego? I never had it, but I remember the commercials?
Remember Fresca soda? Loaded with cyclamates I think.
Metrical and Sego? I never had it, but I remember the commercials?
Remember Fresca soda? Loaded with cyclamates I think.
My mom tried every weight loss fad of the 1960's. When my friends paid a visit to my house, I would take them to the kitchen and show them many of the products they'd only seen on television. Just the sight of those meal replacement milkshakes always gave me the heebie-jeebies!
I'm so sorry you were faced with Sego as a school lunch. I can still see my mom's face when she drank the stuff.
