Post #784976 by Bam Bam on Tue, Mar 13, 2018 1:39 PM

Looking further into the reasons why Metrecal and other products were pulled by the FDA, this NYT article from 1977 implies people were dying of extreme weight loss and vitamin deficiency because they were subsisting on nothing but protein shakes - and only spoonfuls of it at a time.

...a careful examination of 10 of the deaths had determined that the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 44, had lost an average of 90 pounds, had died suddenly of heart irregularities either while on the diet or shortly after going off of it.

Dr. Sours and his colleagues said they had not determined the exact cause of the deaths, although one theory is that the cardiac irregularities were caused by the depletion of potassium in the body...

Obviously they didn't add enough nutmeg.