Article: Detoxing your body, or flushing out your wallet?(News)

"Do you look tired, old and fat?"

Well, yes, since you ask, it's early January and I have to admit I've looked and felt |better.

And when I opened my TV listings magazine in search of small screen solace, I was confronted by your full-page advert for detox foot pads.

That tired, old and fat line really got my attention, thanks to the thick red circle around each of those depressing words.

"Just imagine all those toxins, like caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and pollution inside your body!" the advert reads.

Apparently all I have to do is stick a pad to my feet when I go to bed, and when I wake up it will be black, and that's how I'll know that I've purged those ...

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