Diet Pills In The 1990s
A weight loss pill called fen phen was super trendy in the early 1990s.
Diet pills in the 1990s. 1 apparently much of that goes to waste because more than one third of american adults are still obese. The diet pill and weight loss drug industry has been growing for the last four decades as people have become more health conscious and image conscious. A brief history of diet pills and the fda.
In essence they promised you could stuff your face with pizza and. In 1996 after much media attention. A friend of hers lost a drastic amount of weight in a short period of time and she said she knew she was taking these pills but her friend woudln t admit it.
This change brought about a search for solutions that would make losing weight easier. April 30 1980. Fen phen was all the rage in the mid 1990s leading to weight loss in hundreds of thousands of americans.
The pill also worked but it came with some frightening side effects. It was made with two prescription drugs called enfluramine and phentermine. Popular diet pills taken off market as health risks.
The fitness craze blossomed in the 1970s and boomed in the 1980s. Deadly diet pills of the 1990 s i was talking with my mom the other day and she mentioned something about these deadly diet pills from the 90 s. Every year americans spend a lot of money more than 60 billion on weight loss products.
By alice park feb. Some claimed to stop the body s absorption of carbs. 1989 1990 in one of the most memorable moments in tv history oprah winfrey wheels a wagon full of fat across the stage of her.