The Bogus Practice Of Detox

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 13:50 in Health & Medicine

Investigative journalists from Radio-Canada have revealed that a woman who presumably had died from a detox treatment last summer was actually part of a self-help group practicing intense 9- hour sessions of sweating (with boxed heads and  mud-covered bodies in plastic). Hyperthermia claimed her life. When the story broke out shortly after her death owners of detox spas and their peripheral industry had become nervous. Carol Perehudoff, a  travel and spa journalist wrote, read more

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