Introduction
| The Cookie Diet | The Cookie Diet is a diet when you eat cookies and will drop pounds, you will eat cookies for breakfast and lunch but a normal dinner. You will eat about 500-600 calories a day from cookies. |
| Werewolf Diet | The Werewolf Diet also called Lunar Diet is when you can only have water and juice during a full moon or new moon, you will also lose six pounds in water weight in a single day. The extended version continues with eating plants for each phase of the moon. You will lose weight from not eating. |
| Tapeworm Diet | You have to eat the tapeworm egg and it will work on the food you eat when it get to your intestines. some tapeworm eggs can get to other parts of your body and can make you very sick |
| Cottonball Diet | Cotton balls soaked in orange juice. Which was invented on youtube and is very dangerous to supperess your appetite and can cause blockage in your intestines. |
| Lemonade Diet | Basically you just drink and eat lemonade, maple syrup and cayenne pepper mixed in water you are basically drinking diuretics. You will mostly shed water weight. |
Task
Cottonball diet:
The cotton ball diet was invented on YouTube, Facebook and other internet sources because of Youtubers making videos about the cotton ball diet. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cotton+ball+diet
People are doing this diet because they are fat and want to be skinny. Very deadly and get a big cotton ball in your tummy.I wont' try this one.
Werewolf diet:
they sponsor the werewolf diet because models like Demi Moore and Madonna and was also created by the models.https://www.thecut.com/2014/01/madonna-and-demi-moore-diet-like-werewolves.html. It will make you very skinny because you have to eat like a caveman. Most likely to try this one.
Tapeworm Diet:
The tapeworm diet was created by scientists on television https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-horrifying-legacy-of-the-victorian-tapeworm-diet. You can feel very sick by doing this diet. I wont' try this one
Process
| Health Fad | Breatharianism |
| Person | Jennifer Rissi, Female, 50's |
| Duration of Health Fad | Doesen't say. |
| Reason for going on health fad | Went on a Spiritual Journey. |
| Symptoms | Starved to Death |
| Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way? | No |
| Details of other similar cases. | Verity Linn |
| Health Fad : Brooke Robertson | Red Bull diet |
| Person | Brooke Robertson, Female, 23 |
| Duration of health fad | Wasn't Specific |
| Reason for going on health fad | To try and lose weight |
| Symptoms | Heart Attack, Stroke,insomnia, cramping, anxiety, constant pain. |
| Did health fad achieve what it claimed in any way? | May have lost some weight. |
| Details of similar cases. | No other cases |
Evaluation
1.The first type of fad is tanning beds. The second type of fad is taking diet pills.
2. The People who use diet fads and tanning fads are women who are aged 18-30 years. They are trying to impress people. Women want to have a good weight and good looks.
3. The side effects of tanning would be sun cancer and burns and have to have surgery. The side effects of taking the diet drugs are sore stomach, cramps and anxiety.
4.diet pills: Can make you very sick, they don't work on own, you need exercise, you aren't guaranteed what inside the pills, they stop you eating or stop you from being absorbed, be careful organic pills supplements raises blood pressure.
Tanning beds:New tanning beds are not as safe as the old ones, 419,254 cases of skin cancer in USA are caused from tanning beds, nearly 1 million people in the USA use tanning beds each day, in 2010 the total money for the year was 2.6 billion dollars.