Introduction
| The raw food diet | Always ate their food raw. It takes a long time to get ready. It gave lots of fiber and vitamins. |
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| Alkaline diet | No meat, sugar, alcohol, processed food, dairy and caffeine is allowed. They eat more fruit, vegetables and seeds. There are no benefits as the body is good at maintaining the P.H. levels. There is no research that says P.H. affects your weight. The diet is good for vitamins and minerals. |
| Cookie Diet | This diet is based on a person eating high fiber weight loss cookies each containing 500-600 calories. |
| Werewolf Diet | Also known as the 'Luna Diet'. On the day of a full moon, you don't eat anything. You only drink water and juice. You can loose up to 2.7 kg of weight. |
| Five-Bite diet | You eat what you want but only taking five bites from was you have on your dinner table. You also miss breakfast. |
| lemonade diet | The diet consists lemonade, maple syrup and cayenne pepper mixed with water. |
Task
The Raw Food Diet
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Herbert Shelton founded a school and clinic and he promoted the idea.
There are many books encouraging this diet.
People really like the healthy way this diet is promoted and the promises that it will fix cancer.
The diet might not be successful because of the taste.
The negatives are: you have limited types of food that you can eat and you can lose vitamins and minerals because of this.
Alkaline Diet
Robert Young invented the diet and it is promoted by celebrities like Kate Hudson and Jennifer Anniston.
It is successful because people do lose weight because it is mostly vegetable based.
It would be non-successful because of a lack of nutrients especially iron.
The negative side effects are: brain fog, diarrhea, hunger, and irritable bowel syndrome.
The Cookie Diet
Dr Siegal started this diet promoting the idea. Famous people like Kim Kardashian,Jjennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson are linked to this diet.
Many people would like this diet because of the delicious food - cookies and muffins. They are full of sugar and not nutritious.
It would not give enough vitamins and protein in anybodies diet and would therefore is a poor choice to lose weight safely.
I would like the cookie diet because I'm always eating, it is easy to pack and I like sweet and tasty stuff.
i would not like to try the raw food diet because I don't like the taste of raw food, it would be hard to prepare and nobody likes restricted amount of food, I like my food cooked.
Process
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11758216/Eloise-P…
| Health fad 1 | diet pills (D.N.P) |
| Person | Elousise Aimee Perry 21 yr female |
| Duration | unknown she took 8 tablets 2 will kill you |
| Reason |
wanted to slim down, bought pill online |
| Symptoms | metabolism soared |
| Fad claim | did not loss weight but killed her |
| Similar cases | Chis Mapletoft 18 yr male |
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6155774/Woman-dies-after-follow…
| Health fad 2 | lighter life diet |
| person | Samantha Clowe 34 yr female |
| duration | 11 weeks |
| reason | wanted to slim down for wedding (fat bride) |
| symptoms | heart failure, rapid weight loss 19 kg in 11 weeks |
| fad claim | low calorie diet |
| similar cases | Matilda Callaghan 25 yr female died losing 63 kg |
| Health fad 3 | Herbalife weight loss shake |
| person | Lorena Peralta Baltazar 28 yr female |
| duration | unknown she was addicted to shakes to lose weight |
| reason | weight loss |
| symptoms | kidney pains |
| fad claim | safe weight loss (some how safe) |
| similar cases | country of Spain issued warning about herbalife |
https://www.consumerhealthdigest.com/health-news/woman-died-after-being…
Evaluation
On the Dr Phil show, he reported on health fads. A number of fads where shown that lots of people were using these include:
Tanning in not good for your skin it can give you cancer, sun cancer and make holes in your face. Tanning is for people who want to look beautiful but do not tan a lot because it can give you these side effects. Tanning beds are banned in Australia because of health concerns. The favourite method of tanning on the Sunshine coast is to go to the beach.
Phentermine pills are very bad for you even tho you loss weight it can still harm you. if you have to many pills the side effects can be very bad here are some side effects, sickness, heart beat really fast, nauseous to the point of passing out. In Australia, you cannot buy these pills over the counter, which means you need to see a doctor to get a prescription. This drug is called Duromine in Australia and it is one of the most popular weight loss drugs.
Some other facts revealed in the Dr Phil show are:
SPF 15 or better (SPF 30) is good for skin protection.
Sun damage is done when you are young.
UV photo booth shows sun damage on skin.
Pills should have only been used for 3 months (FDA guidelines). The lady used it for 9 months.