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Jan
03

Star Collector?
Brochures distributed between mid-1990 and August 1995 stated that foot reflexologist “Dr. Richard Minarik, N.D.,” of Rego Park, New York, had treated various celebrities and talents with foot reflexology, including those named or alluded to below.
triple world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali
world heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney
prizefighter Ken Norton
Michael Spinks (one hour before the match that would make him world heavyweight champion)
Jackie Onassis
President Ronald Reagan
New York State Governor Mario Cuomo
talk-show host David Hartman
radio disc jockey Ted Brown
Miss Universe Margarette Gardner
five New York Mets players
many of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes

In 1990, the brochure included a photo of Minarik and Mario Cuomo, shoulder to shoulder in front of a gas station. The caption described Cuomo as looking “very contented after getting his ailing back cured with a foot reflexology treatment” from the “famed” foot reflexologist.

However, in August of that year, Governor Cuomo responded that he “in no way “endorsed “Mr.” Minarik’s work and that Minarik had never treated him. Brochures distributed between late 1993 and August 1995 do not mention or depict the former governor.

I first laid eyes on Minarik on July 29, 1995, when I chanced upon him in a steam room. This was in a large health spa in Woodside, New York, that had displayed his promotional materials for years. I recognized Minarik from a photo in a copy of a tabloid clipping I had recently seen at the club. The man sitting beside him asked about his cellular phone, perched just outside the window ahead of them. Minarik told the man he was expecting a call from a patient. Before I left the club, I obtained his brochure from a display case.

The cover of the brochure stated:

Foot Reflexology is a science which deals with the principle that there are reflexes in the feet relative to each and every organ and all parts of the body.

As a person gets older, inorganic calcium builds up on these nerve endings causing a shortage of nerve energy back to the corresponding parts of the body. By skillfully stimulating these reflexes, these inorganic calcium deposits can be gradually dissolved enabling renewed nerve energy and blood circulation to previously sluggish glands, organs or other parts of the body. Even after the first treatment, the patient experiences a profound sense of well-being and euphoria.

These assertions are scientifically footless.

The cover further states that foot reflexology has “successfully alleviated” anxiety, arthritis, back pain, bursitis, constipation, depression, fatigue, “female problems,” glandular disorders, headaches, intestinal ills, neck stiffness, sciatica, and more than a half-dozen other health problems.

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