Kinoki Foot Pads?: Step Directly on Bullshit with Kinoki Foot Pads
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Kinoki Foot Pads?: Step Directly On Bullshit with Kinoki Foot Pads
There’s not a day that goes by where we don’t get at least a half dozen emails asking about specific health or fitness products. Though I don’t have time to answer them all directly – we do try hard to post as many of them as possible on at least one of my sites.
Today is a good one…
Many people have been asking for my opinion about these foot pads that turn black when you wear them overnight.
My good colleague, Dr Stephen Barrett – at ‘Quackwatch’ has pulled this gem right from the FTC’s files.
Here you go…
FTC sues “detox” Kinoki Foot Pad Marketers
The Federal Trade Commission has charged Yehuda (”Juda”) Levin, Baruch Levin, and their Xacta 3000 Inc. with deceptive advertising. According to the complaint, the defendants claimed that applying Kinoki Foot Pads to the soles of the feet at night would remove heavy metals, metabolic wastes, toxins, parasites, chemicals, and cellulite from their bodies. The ads also claimed that use of the foot pads could treat depression, fatigue, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, and a weakened immune system. [FTC charges marketers of Kinoki Foot Pads with deceptive advertising; seeks funds for consumer redress. FTC news release, Jan 28, 2009] http://www.casewatch.org/ftc/news/2009/kinoki.shtml
When applied to the feet, foot pads darken, which marketers claim is evidence that toxins are being drawn out from the body. However, investigators have demonstrated that the darkening is caused by contact with moisture from any source and has nothing to do with “toxins.” [Barrett S. The "detox" foot pad scam. Device Watch, Feb 5, 2009] http://www.devicewatch.org/reports/kinoki.shtml
It used to baffle me at how many people acutally buy into these rip-offs – But as I’ve become wiser – I’ve grown to understand human nature – and how these types of dirt-bag companies prey on the desperate people who are conned and misled into wasting their hard earned money for an outright lie.
How do you feel about this stuff?
Have you been cheated in the past?
If so – I’d like to know – so click on that cool ‘Comments’ button right there, and just post it below.
Your trainer,
Joey Atlas
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Tags: cellulite, fat, Kinoki Foot Pads, toxins, weight loss
Hi Joey,
I just came across this article and I can’t believe how sucked in I was to buying this product myself. I’m usally pretty good about these things, but I had seen a similar procedure done at the BigE in Springfield, MA that showed results, not sure how scientific it really is and it was costly. This product didn’t even change colors when I used it, that was enough to tell me it was useless and $20 wasted!!
Hello.
I am one of your new clients and i just bough your manual but the monent i downloaded the main manual, the website closed and i was not able to register for anything or dowload the supplements and those were one of the main reasons why i bought the program in the first place.
Please tell me what can i do to get the supplements that i am missing because i have a celulite problem and one of your supplements was exactly on that.
I will be waiting for your answer.
I have read about the numerous satisfied clients that you have had until now.
Please let me become one of them.
Thank you.
I agree that the Kinoki foot pads are probably a scam. However, Dr. Stephen Barrett slams any and all alternative medical treatments. His website is backed by pharmaceutical companies and I have a hard time believing anything he writes. He is a retired psychiatrist, and I doubt he knows much about real health and nutritional healing. His website ALWAYS sides with the pharmaceuticals and leads you to believe that he is an expert in the medical field. He is the quack!
I saw these things a few years ago and laughed when I saw them. Bullshit is right…. they probably can’t even draw “toe jam” from your feet.