The Grossest Thing I’ve Seen All Year
Tonight I was reading my Gmail, and I was looking at one I’d gotten from my mother, in which we were talking about how our family needed to lose some weight. This being Gmail, I got a sponsored link across the top of my webpage with the eye-grabbing line “Lose Weight, No Exercise!” Probably a scam, since all kinds of bogus products promise to make you lose weight without exercising, which is pretty improbable. Still, since I’m both lazy and a sucker, I go ahead and click on it.
Wow. Not your average health product. It turns out that this sponsored link was for a colon cleansing product called (appropriately enough) Colonix. Apparently if you’re having trouble losing weight, sometimes it isn’t so much a question of whether or not you’re eating the right foods and exercising, but rather if you’re constipated or full of instestinal parasites.
Here comes the gross part: the people whose colons have been blighted by worms and small crustaceans and haven’t been able to take a decent crap in close to a year are so delighted by Colonix, that they’ve sent in gushing testimonials about the wriggling things they’ve passed from their bodies. At least one guy was so excited about being able to poo again that he took his digital camera to the toilet with him every time he went, and took pictures of what he disgorged from his lower GI tract.
Check it out if you feel up to it. But not if it’s right before dinner.
