What's eating you...literally?

The latest high priced spa pampering treatment is...Fish Eating Your Feet.  Yup.  How weird has society become when we convince ourselves that hundreds of little fish gnawing the dead skin from our feet is concidered to be a necessity in foot care?  Who thinks of this kind of stuff?

Fish pedicures are creating  a splash in the States where a Virginia spa has been offering them for the past four months. John Ho, who runs the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon said 5,000 people have taken the plunge so far.

"This is a good treatment for everyone who likes to have nice feet," Ho said. He said he wanted to come up with something unique while finding a replacement for pedicures that use razors to scrape off dead skin. The razors have fallen out of favor with state regulators because of concerns about whether they're sanitary.

Ho said the hot water in which the fish thrive doesn't support much plant or aquatic life, so they learned to feed on whatever food sources were available -- including dead, flaking skin. They leave live skin alone because, without teeth, they can't bite it off.  Ew.

Would you dip your feet in a tank full of fish to let them nibble away at your dead skin?