Posted by Quintal on August 4, 2007, at 3:40:08
In reply to Mother questions phony foot detoxification, posted by linkadge on August 1, 2007, at 8:54:15
Hey, I enrolled for a course in diet & nutrition at my local college a while back and they had a trip to an alternative healing festival - I recognize that machine from some of the descriptions - all the girls were raving about it! What I found scary was that the teacher saw nothing wrong in this, she didn't question it at all... I dropped out of it after a few weeks because I didn't think I was learning about anything of value, and they didn't take kindly to me pointing out that most of these things were scams. They were mostly lonely women who took classes just to get out of the house and enjoy the company, which is why those quacks target them I suppose. Anyway, there's loads more products like that out there. One of the women bought some sort of powder that turned into a purple gel when mixed with water in the bath. It was supposed to draw out toxins from the pores of the skin, the usual crap, basically play-school chemistry tricks involving food dyes and coloured gunge etc.
Makes me angry because the whole of alternative medicine gets tainted by association with these things.
Q
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