Popular diets through the years

The Ayds Plan

A relic of days gone by (with a most-unfortunate name), these pill, or candy, suppressed the appetite and gained popularity in the 1970s. They debuted in television commercials in the early 1980s, mere months before AIDS broke out. The ads have since become a YouTube sensation ("Question: Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?").

The Ayds Plan A relic of days gone by (with a most-unfortunate name), these pill, or candy, suppressed the appetite and gained popularity in the 1970s. They debuted in television commercials in the early 1980s, mere months before AIDS broke out. The ads have since become a YouTube sensation ('Question: Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?').