If you think it's difficult to lose weight in this day and age, you're right. However, it used to be even harder. Humans bodies were the same, but weight loss techniques a few decades ago were just bizarre. Dropping twenty pounds is no easy task, but at least now we have some idea what we're doing. It seems like back in the 1950s, people made wild predictions about what would help you slim down. While they might not have had science figured out back then, they sure made up for it with sexism. Take a look at the hell that...