That’s Japanese for “Wash your way to a great looking body.”

It just doesn’t get any easier than this, folks. Lose weight by taking a shower, using Aoqili, a seaweed soap. Twenty-eight million Japanese can’t be wrong!

According to this highly reputable site, the Wall Street Journal says, “It’s like slow liposuction but with no suffering.” Jeez, first Fortune scopped them on the Enron story and now this.

Unfortunately, there is a downside. The site indicates, “For best results Aoqili Premium Seaweed Soap should be used as a part of your daily health and beauty routine” (my italics). Daily? I’m supposed to shower each and every day?

Ha! With any old health regime I can get away with exercising only three or four times a week. Don’t these people realize how much standing is involved in taking a shower? And don’t even get me started on baths. Relaxing, my foot.

The Japanese are truly a marvelous people. Their teen-agers score well ahead of obese, non-showering American students in math, science and especially Japanese. And certainly only they would have the fortitude to stick to a regimen this rigorous.

No suffering … where’s good old stinky Zen Buddhism when you need it?