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Before the Jane Fonda video…
August 24, 2012 by TimHughes 
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The “Scientific American” issue of Nov. 18, 1911 offers this interesting solution for “…reducing abdominal weight”. I don’t think this one caught on…
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Filed under: Illustrated Newspapers, The 20th & 21st Centuries, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: humor, Inventions, scientific american, weight loss
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