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Kinoki Detox Footpads

Miss Whiplash

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For $19.95, this product claims to remove the toxins from your body though the soles of your feet,while you sleep.

This amazing system for cleansing the body is based on the ancient practices of foot reflexology. Working much more quickly than other detox methods and using the natural cleansing power of double distilled bamboo vinegar, harmful substances are drawn out of your body.

You’ll feel the results right away as you rid your body of things like: heavy metals, toxins, metabolic waste, chemicals and even parasites. You'll be better able to combat fatigue and even lose weight.
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I think the Violent Femmes summed this up nicely:
he's tellin'
lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies
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I've seen similar things "tested" on UK TV - the pads got a bit dirty (yuck) whilst a foot-spa machine produced gross brown water...via some sort of electrolysis corrosion mechanism - it did the same thing with no added ingredient (can't remember what was added) and no feet in it. The rep had no answer for that as I recall. Sorry, can't remember the brand of either of those, but they must have been around in one form or another for a few years. Even if they aren't truly "ancient". :)
 
Big Les said:
I've seen similar things "tested" on UK TV - the pads got a bit dirty (yuck) whilst a foot-spa machine produced gross brown water...via some sort of electrolysis corrosion mechanism - it did the same thing with no added ingredient (can't remember what was added) and no feet in it. The rep had no answer for that as I recall. Sorry, can't remember the brand of either of those, but they must have been around in one form or another for a few years. Even if they aren't truly "ancient". :)
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Was it the Aqua Detox?
http://www.devicewatch.org/reports/aquadetox.shtml

You can find another excellent debunking of detox foot baths in this news item:
http://www.click2houston.com/video/5425517/index.html
(A 15 second ad precedes the 4 minute segment)

And Orac thoroughly debunked foot detoxification machines and ‘miracle foot patches’ in his Friday Dose of Woo yesterday:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/08/your_friday_dose_of_woo_a_soothing_footb.php#more
 
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That's the fella (the bath that is). Not sure which foot pads I saw "tested" though. It was only on something "lite" like GMTV or it's ilk, but even they were able to show there was nothing in it.
 
Given that most ancient cultures had very short average life spans like 30 years or so, why on earth do so many people want to take health tips from them?
 
patrick767 said:
Given that most ancient cultures had very short average life spans like 30 years or so, why on earth do so many people want to take health tips from them?
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I know!!! This is what really puzzles me. This belief that the ancients were so wise in their ways!!
 
The Vampire said:
I put it on my blog, but didn't get that many hits. I think the feet put readers off. :rolleyes:
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I thought about posting something on your site about being able to see Jesus or the Virgin Mary in the brown stains. :)
 
I'm shattered Randi did not use my foot pads in his commentary. That was the best bit of quackery I've seen in several years. It trumps Popoff's new miracle water.
 
Kinoki footpads work like those Stridex acne pads, using mild adhesive to pull dirt and other detritus from the skin. The soles of the feet are seldom completely clean -- they're awkward to scrub, soaping the soles creates a risk of slipping, and most people do at least some walking barefoot -- so it's easy to find dirt there. The dirt diminishes over days of the Kinoki regimen because, by wearing the pads, there's no more walking barefoot. You could get the same results from duct tape.
Kinoki's claims suggest that if "toxins" are not pulled from the bottom of the feet they will migrate to the hair on the head is absurd.
 
I have a woo friend who told me about using these.

I'm just wondering what physiological process results in depositing "toxins" near the soles of the feet anyway.

Anne Thraz said:
Kinoki's claims suggest that if "toxins" are not pulled from the bottom of the feet they will migrate to the hair on the head is absurd.
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Hmm. . . and since hair is physiologically dead that would be a safe place for these hypothetical "toxins" anyway, so using their foot pads is disrupting the body's own natural way of handling them. :)

Sounds dangerous. And they no doubt have chemicals in them! ;)
 
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