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Byline: editor: Sarah Brown
Marina Rust discovers an arm-toning, waist-cinching, thigh-whittling machine that promises miracles in minutes.
Really? A machine that exercises for you?
"I'm serious," said a friend. "It burns fat. Instantly. In 40 minutes I lost almost two inches off my waist. People refuse to believe me. 'If you've lost anything, it's water,' they tell me. I'm beginning to feel like the boy who cried wolf."
A few people thought they knew it. "That machine's been around forever," said a 70-year-old man.
"Is it like those wide jiggly vibrating belts on a thirties cruise ship?" asked a younger friend who's seen ...