title: From plunger to Punkt-roller: a century of weight-loss quackery.
authors.affiliation: Bariatric Medical Institute, Ottawa, Ont.
authors.forename: Yoni
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Freedhoff
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D011781:Quackery / Q000266:history*; D015431:Weight Loss