Recently there is an infomercial featuring “ancient Japanese secret” –Kinoki. According to the advertising, Kinoki foot Pads can do wonders to your body, including the following:
• Remove toxins, heavy metals, parasites and chemicals from your body;
• Improve your sleep and headache;
• Lose weight;
• Remove cellulite (wow!)
How does Kinoki Foot Pads work? According to the infomercial, “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.”
All you have to do is “Pay $9.95 shipping and handling for each additional set of pads. $10 bucks for S&H.
Does Kinoki Foot Pads work? Unfortunately, your body doesn’t work this way. It has an intestinal tract to transport solids throughout the body. There are only three way of toxins elimination: sweat, urine and bowel movements. Toxins that make its way to skin will be extruding as sweat, with or without the helps of Kinoki Foot Pad. In addition, your skin, liver, kidney and urethra are most effective at extruding substances. Most of these minerals are too large to move across the membranes, thus it is doubtful that Kinoki Foot Pads can actually “suck” the toxins away from your body.
If you watch the infomercial, you will notice that foot turn brown after contacting with Kinoki foot pads. It is actually nothing more than chemical reaction between sweet and chemicals inside Kinoki foot pads.
Some may argue that Kinoki Foot Pads is approved by FDA (as advertised). So what? Just because FDA has approved it doesn’t mean it is safe. Just take Statins (drugs for lowering cholesterol) as example. It is FDA approved and yet many people have experience serious side effects from it.
How True! These pads prove there is a sucker born every minute. Ok, suppose (just for the sake of argument) that these pads actually work. If the people who can’t keep their credit cards in their wallet stopped for one moment before snatching their phones up would think, they would realize they could make their own ’sweat pads’ for about 10cents each.
Simply take an old T-shirt and tear it into strips. Before you lie down to go to sleep place a 4×4 gauze pad soaked in bamboo vinegar (about 79cents a pint) on the bottom of your feet. Tie the pad in place with the strips. PRESTO! In the morning your white T shirt strips and/or the gauze pad will be brown.
You can make about 25 pads with that pint of vinegar. The gauze pads will run you around 5 bucks for 12 double packs.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you’ll feel better about being detoxed because the vinegar can’t do that, but you WILL feel better for not having wasted your hard earned $$$ on a scam.
You can use that money you saved and put a cup of gasoline in your tank! Speaking of which, I increased the mpg on my SUV by 35% by using the water4gas system. cost me 137.49 for the parts and took me about 6 hours to assemble/install, but damn! it works!!! I now get 37mpg on my 4cylinder Tuscon ! I have to switch it off in slow city driving - like when I have to sit at a bunch of lights or wait for a train to go by because the engine will be getting too much octane/power/hydrogen, but, for the rest of the time when I’m on the freeway or a main route that’s fairly clear I can leave the system to run. YIPPEE!