https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/eee754c7-419e-47fd-9df3-1e3829ad9381 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Dating to the late 1970s or early 1980s, these are TV commercials for Ayds Reducing Plan Candy. Ayds was a diet candy that was marketed as an appetite suppressant. It was available in flavors like chocolate, butterscotch, and chocolate mint. The candy was introduced in the United States in the mid-1940s and was discontinued in the late 1980s. Ayds contained phenylpropanolamine, which was designed to suppress hunger and reduce caloric intake. Ayds was a convenient and tasty way to control weight, and Hollywood celebrities endorsed it in the late 1970s, which increased its popularity. However as the Acquired Immune Deficiency or AIDS epidemic emerged in the 1980s, the weight-loss product's similar name caused consternation and eventually, the product line was abandoned. Transcript: 00:00 Woman: "Does this come in a size larger?" Saleswoman: "No, just sold it." Woman: "The zipper went up all right. Maybe if I took off a few pounds but how?" 0:19 Saleswoman: "Like I did: the AYDS plan. AYDS reducing plan candy. When you take one or two with a hot drink before meals AYDS helps you curb your appetite without any drugs. On the AYDS plan you eat less and you lose weight naturally." Woman: "You've made a sale." 0:57 Announcer: "Overweight? Try the AYDS reducing plan. AYDS candy contains vitamins and minerals. No drugs. This delicious tasting candy taken with a hot drink before meals helps you curb your appetite. You eat less because you want less so you lose weight. In case after case reports show pounds lost by men and women alike. 1:16 And once you've reduced AIDS helps you control your weight the AIDS reducing plan is proved thousands have lost weight on it. Try it. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k808nOQy3Y Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:12:23 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/eee754c7-419e-47fd-9df3-1e3829ad9381 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.