Worst Gimmick: Kinoki Foot Pads. The FTC has charged Kinoki Foot

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From Slim Chance Awards via Consumer Health Digest #09-53

December 31, 2009

Worst Gimmick: Kinoki Foot Pads. The FTC has charged Kinoki Foot

Pads with deceptive advertising for their claims that applying the

pads to the soles of feet at night will remove heavy metals,

metabolic wastes, toxins, parasites, and cellulite from people's

bodies. The ads also claim that the foot pads can treat depression,

fatigue, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure and a weakened

immune system. Since the foot pads darken, this is claimed as

evidence that toxins are being drawn out of the body, but

investigators have shown that the darkening is caused by moisture and

has nothing to do with " toxins. "

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