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" Confession: For a while now, I&amp;#x27;ve been kind of obsessed with the concept behind Kinoki foot pads. You know, the as-seen-on-TV product that promises to rid your body of toxins while you sleep through pads you attach to your feet. If it weren&amp;#x27;t for my practical-minded husband, I would have stocked up on these things a long time ago. Good thing I didn&amp;#x27;t.So, it&amp;#x27;s long been known that these foot pads, and others like them on the market, are a hoax. But the idea behind them is too tantalizing for most people (OK, I&amp;#x27;m one of them) to believe--or want to believe. After all, you slap the pads on at night, and the next morning, they&amp;#x27;re loaded with brown, gooey sludge. Seems pretty amazing, doesn&amp;#x27;t it? In fact, there&amp;#x27;s a whole contingent of people out there that believe their lives have been changed by these foot pads (do some searching and you&amp;#x27;ll find &amp;quot;Kinoki foot pads changed my life&amp;quot; stories on online message boards). But according to an NPR reporter who tested the pads and had them sent to a respected Berkley, California, lab for analysis, they&amp;#x27;re a complete joke. Apparently you can hold them up to steam, and it will make them turn brown and sludgy, too. So, yeah, big-time gimmick. Have any of you tried them? Photo: Istock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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