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Old 01-19-2006, 10:11 PM   #1  
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Default The new way to burn fat - set yourself on fire - Article

I found this online.. Umm OUCH?

The new way to burn fat - set yourself on fire
By Hazel Knowles in Hong Kong
(Filed: 04/12/2005)

Women who want to lose weight are being offered a startling new way to burn fat - by being set on fire.

Would-be slimmers are flocking to a spa in Hong Kong that promises to reduce their waistlines by smearing them with Chinese herbs, dousing them with alcohol and then setting light to them, all for £78 a session.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/wburn04.xml
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Old 01-19-2006, 10:33 PM   #2  
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I wouldnt do it!
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Old 01-20-2006, 10:29 AM   #3  
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I couldn't open the link, but setting myself on fire definitely sounds like it would be something I wouldn't do for any reason.

Good heavens.
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Old 01-20-2006, 01:56 PM   #4  
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OMG - that is wild! It probably works on the same principle of heat wraps - it just makes people sweat out a bunch of water.

I love the line "Its owner, Karen Chu, boasts that about 100 customers have successfully undergone the treatment - with no casualties."

No casulaties? I never want to undertake any kind of beuaty treatment where I need to worry about whether or not there will be casualties.
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Old 01-27-2006, 04:55 PM   #5  
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I thought you were kidding, thats completly unreal, I guess Im just to western, count me in as one who is afraid of being set on fire!!!
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Omg!!!
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Old 01-28-2006, 04:08 PM   #7  
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I'll stay fat thanks
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LOL I think I'll try other methods!
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As PT Barnum once said, there's a sucker born every minute.
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