�Dangerous nonsense� :: Mmegi Online

Most of the complaints we receive at Consumer Watchdog are about irritations. Serious irritations, but just irritations nonetheless. Stores telling lies about warranties, cellphones that don’t last for more than a few hours and incorrectly labelled goods in stores are all really irritating, but we need to keep a sense of proportion. They’re not going to kill anyone.

But there are things that might kill you. Right now, on the market in Botswana.

A reader sent me a link to a Facebook page of a spa that offered a range of normal spa-like services. Facials, massages and having your eyebrows fiddled with are all on offer but they also have some more intriguing products and services. If you want to lose weight without the effort of eating less and exercising more they can perform some minor miracles with “electrotherapy” which they claim “is a safe and painless but powerful alternative to surgery and other invasive methods to losing weight, that can achieve rapid results.” They also say that the process “tones and firms abdominals, legs and arms, while breaking up fat.”

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