Armstrong, Louis & Lucille: . Lose Weight THE “SATCHMO” WAY. “Swiss Kriss” SIGNED in hand by Louis Armstrong. 3 page stapled typed plan to “Lose Weight The ‘Satchmo’ Way by Lucille Armstrong & Louis Armstrong, signed “Satcmo / Louis Armstrong” with blue fountain pen on the first page. 8.5 x 11 inches (21.5 x 28 cm). Well used and stained copy

Forget about Novo Nordisk products, try Swiss Kriss. The 20th Century west with its strong focus on profit maximation and efficiency also saw the beginning an obsession with control of the body and weight loss – a phenomenon that is still raging. Amphetamine pills for everyone, despite strong side effects like anxiety, paranoia, irritability, and sleep disturbances, if you could stay up and perform and look model looking thin. Louis Armstrong had anxiety problems and eating a lot of food was one of the ways (along with smoking Marihuana) to calm himself down and he soon got a weight problem. He used and got addicted to the “Swiss Kriss” product and he started advocating the use of this laxative to control weight. He would publish his ideas in a book called Lose Weight the Satchmo Way, and also appeared in advertisements for his favorite herbal laxative, Swiss Kriss. John Lennon and Mick Jagger were later regular user of the Swiss Kriss