Sweating

This one is a bit convoluted, but bear with me.

Over at www.curezone.com a full slate of crackpots, nincompoops, and first rate loonies claim to have cures for several different conditions. Of the strangest things they say is that all illnesses are caused by toxins. They state at the very top of their AIDS Cause page, "There is no such a thing as a single cause of any health problem." (Funny, 'cause I thought that the flu was caused by the flu virus; not by how long your mother's labor lasted or how traumatic your birth was.)

They tie everything into the generic and evil- and dirty-sounding ubiquitous "Toxins". Including AIDS.

On their AIDS page they flat out refuse to believe that HIV causes AIDS so obviously they're well respected in the medical community and we should listen to what they say. (Yeah, right...)

Anyway, they say "Sweating is powerful way to cleanse your body from accumulated toxins." So, sweating (along with the other crap they say will help) will rid your body of the toxins which are causing AIDS. And, since HIV doesn't cause AIDS, well, jus' go put on a plastic garbage bag and run around the block in 105 degree heat. If the heat stroke doesn't kill you AIDS just might be cured!

Ok, c'mon. If sweating was such a great way to remove toxins which they say cause all illnesses from your body, why did Lance Armstrong end up with cancer? Why did Magic Johnson end up with AIDS? (Truthfully, I don't know if Magic Johnson has an AIDS diagnosis; but these fuckwads aren't claiming to cure HIV; just AIDS...) If sweating removed toxins and if toxins were the cause of all illness, athletes wouldn't get sick. And neither would that fat smelly guy in the bookstore with sweatstains on his too-small shirt.