Detox - The new wallet slimming craze

Detox has now become a part of our everyday lingo. You even hear high school kids talking about.

Its a cleansing ritual, gut cleaner, a fancy slimming technique. And everyone is making money of it.

Gone are the days when simple lime water after a tummy upset would suffice. All you hear about now is Kale juice and detox foot pads and nicely packaged liquid diet plans.

We're constantly told that our bodies are polluted by the junk we eat and the chemicals in the air. The only solution we hear is DETOX!

Its so commercialized these days that people would spend limitless amounts of money to get fit fast.

We had to see if there was any truth to these money making schemes. So we tried 2 New age detox plans and one natural method to compare the effectiveness of these products.

The first was Nikatomi Detox Foot pads.

The instruction says to place these foot pads before you go to sleep and when you wake up you will seem all the toxic chemicals in your body in the form of black residue.

Well the jokes on us as what we received as a sachet of black salt, ginger powder and charcoal.

We stuck it on our foots and the next morning, through the process of oxidation, lo and behold, there was black residue.

What a shocker! Thankfully we only lost a small sum of 500/- on this scam.

The 2nd product was Zoes Detox Kit.

The kit costs around 4000/- and it comes with a whole bunch of juices no one has ever heard of before and a diet plan with ingredients that aren't readily available ohh and Museli.

The kit comes with 4 packs to be taken once a week.

Its heavily advertised on social media with claims from people who have lost 10 kgs.

Well lets just say we lost 1/5th of that and felt absolutely no different.

The last is our natural remedy of raisins soaked in water.

We took 10 raisins and soaked them in warm water overnight. First thing in the morning, we drank this water and after a period of 1 hour, we had our usual breakfast.

This was continued for a week and by the end of it we lost 1 kg.

Thats 4 kgs a month!

So people, don't be fooled by this quick and expensive detox plans. Go the natural way. There is nothing like it and you don't lose out either