Proof of Foot Detox Myth?!
Question: Proof of Foot Detox Myth.?
My dad is thinking about buying one of those foot detox baths. I've sent him some websites that disprove foot detox as a myth, but he doesn't listen.
Do you know any more sites or news videos - preferably ones with more or less definitive proof.?Health Question & Answer
Do you know any more sites or news videos - preferably ones with more or less definitive proof.?Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Some of the info on those pages is very very interesting!
http://reviews.ebay.com/Scam-the-real-st...
http://spaindex.com/Articles/IonicScam.h... -- "My wife and I are seeing a chiropractor to correct some back and neck problems. Having never seen a chiropractor prior to this, I'm a bit skeptical of that science, but since my insurance pays for it, I thought I would try it. The chiropractic has helped me tremendously. My wife started after I started to see results. I only found out AFTER she had paid for 10 treatments at a cost of $385 that they had put her on a course of these "ionic foot baths".
Needless to say, not only does the insurance not cover it, but for good reason. It should have been a clue. I was present one day when she finished her foot bath and she showed me the dirty water with little bits of black flakes and white flocculent material. I explained my theory that the water would have changed color most likely whether or not her feet were in the bath at the time. I told her I would show her, so today I did a little experiment:
As you can see in the picture in the upper left, I have a 12 volt battery charger, with two electrodes, one of copper, and the other of steel (a piece of copper pipe, and a nail). In the beaker is room-temperature filtered water with added sea salt (what most peddlers of these products recommend). After only a couple of minutes at most, the water in the beaker appeared as shown in the picture at the upper right: Yellow, with black flakes, and "floaties".
All of this was conducted Without Feet in the water."
.?p=342" rel="nofollow">http://medicine.com.my/wp/.?p=342 -- "Many skeptics suspected that the color change produced by the Aqua Detox was caused by rust (oxidized iron), rather than toxins. Ben Goldacre, who writes the
http://reviews.ebay.com/Scam-the-real-st...
http://spaindex.com/Articles/IonicScam.h... -- "My wife and I are seeing a chiropractor to correct some back and neck problems. Having never seen a chiropractor prior to this, I'm a bit skeptical of that science, but since my insurance pays for it, I thought I would try it. The chiropractic has helped me tremendously. My wife started after I started to see results. I only found out AFTER she had paid for 10 treatments at a cost of $385 that they had put her on a course of these "ionic foot baths".
Needless to say, not only does the insurance not cover it, but for good reason. It should have been a clue. I was present one day when she finished her foot bath and she showed me the dirty water with little bits of black flakes and white flocculent material. I explained my theory that the water would have changed color most likely whether or not her feet were in the bath at the time. I told her I would show her, so today I did a little experiment:
As you can see in the picture in the upper left, I have a 12 volt battery charger, with two electrodes, one of copper, and the other of steel (a piece of copper pipe, and a nail). In the beaker is room-temperature filtered water with added sea salt (what most peddlers of these products recommend). After only a couple of minutes at most, the water in the beaker appeared as shown in the picture at the upper right: Yellow, with black flakes, and "floaties".
All of this was conducted Without Feet in the water."
.?p=342" rel="nofollow">http://medicine.com.my/wp/.?p=342 -- "Many skeptics suspected that the color change produced by the Aqua Detox was caused by rust (oxidized iron), rather than toxins. Ben Goldacre, who writes the
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