Health Watch: New Body Wrap
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A way to shrink your body in just an hour, kind of like a successful instant diet. 3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl is here to tell us if it really works.
If you need a quick fix for a special occasion this might help some people. And it's a lot less dangerous than starving, or doing a cleanse or extreme exercise. This is a new spin on the old Saran wrap trick.
It's billed as a quick and easy way to lose some inches.
It's what Kasha Chikynowski's is hoping for. She wants to slim down now, and this new kind of wrap promises a miracle in an hour.
"Overall, it would be about an inch and a half, enough to get into a dress," said Marina Valmy, owner of a New York beauty school.
Unlike traditional body wraps that remove excess water weight, the inventor of this wrap says it targets toxins.
Marina says it works by removing toxins that build up around fat cells that can make fatty areas like the thighs even larger.
"You need to stimulate that blood circulation and get the toxins moving in that area and that's what this product does," said Marina.
First, Kasha is slathered with ingredients like ivy and sea water, that Marina says help draw out the toxins.
Next, she's wrapped in cellophane. Kasha says she was thrilled to find she lost over an inch from her waist, and three quarters of an inch from her hips, in just one hour.
Kasha thinks it's unbelievable.
"You'll be able to get into a dress really nicely and have lots of room to wiggle around, and have a few glasses of champagne," said Marina.
As you may have guessed, there a plenty of skeptics who say if the wrap does work the results probably won't last, and those inches lost will return within days.
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Reported by Stephanie Stahl, CBS 3
