Sunday Morning Television

I was watching an infomercial this morning and it kind of scared me. The guy was saying that most people were carrying around inside them about four to twenty-two pounds of undigested food and waste. The latter was caked onto your digestive tract, along with toxins, and prevented your body from absorbing needed nutrients as well as clogging your digestive system. According to the maker, this leads to a poochy gut, weight gain, irregular bowel movements, fatigue, and could eventually kill you. He mentioned a factoid about the actor John Wayne’s autopsy report stating that he had over forty pounds of undigested matter clogged in his digestive system and alluded that this contributed to his death.

But if you bought his all natural cleansing system you would be on the road to better health, two or three bowel movements a day, and a longer, more active life. He almost had me scared enough to buy this stuff, but at the last second I decided that the money would be better spent on a set of Ginsu knives and some Smartware silicone bakeware made with Temperflex silicone.