Introduction
| Health fads | details |
| Grapefruit diet | Grapefruit or grapefruit juice,12 days. |
| Cotton ball diet | Balls soaked in orange juice. |
| Cabbage soup diet | Fat-free cabbage soup,eaten two to three times a day for a week along with other low-calorie foods such as bananas and skim milk. |
| Cookie diet |
You eat about 500 to 600 calories a day from high-fiber weight-loss cookies (one cookie company even makes the cookies from egg and milk protein) for breakfast,lunch and any snacks. |
| Five bite diet | Eat whatever you want-but only five bites of it. |
Task
cookie diet
People find out about the cookie diet by Hollywood celebrities.They see magazines about celebrities using the cookie diet.This is an example about the hollywood cookie diet.
This diet would successful because alot of people like cookies.
People might get very sick because they ate to many cookies.People would also want to eat different food.
The cookie diet is not a healthy diet because it doesn't teach them about good food.
Grapefruit diet
The grapefruit diet is promoted/marketed by stating that it’s been around for 80 years and that you can lose 10 plus pounds in 12 days.
The promotion/marketing would be successful because it promises results in a short period of time.
The promotion/marketing would unsuccessful because people aren’t eating as much and could feel hungry.
cabbage soup diet
This fad diet is promoted/marketed through advertising that claims that this low, fat, high fibre diet gets quick results.
The promotion/marketing of this diet would be successful because it gets quick results.
The promotion/marketing of this diet would be unsuccessful because it’s just a quick fix diet and it can also promote bloating and gas and is lacking in protein.
I would like to try the cookie diet because I would prefer eating cookies to cabbage or grapefruit.The diet sounds easy and convenient to follow.
I would least likely try the cabbage soup diet because I do not want to eat cabbage soup 2-3 times a day for a week.
Process
| heath fad | breatharianism |
| person (name,age,gender,photo) | Verity Linn,49,woman |
| duration of health fad | 21 days |
| reason for going on health fad | she believed that not eating or drinking for 21 days would 'spiritually cleanse' her body and 'recharge her both physically and mentally' |
| symptoms | death |
| did the health fad achieve what it claims in any way? | she did lose weight however it caused death |
| details of other similar cases | Australia, India, Switzerland |
| health fad | atkins |
| person(name,age,gender,photo) | amy woman |
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Evaluation
The first Fad the tv show talked about was tanning. Both women tanned in the sun and using a tanning bed. The second fad in the tv show was about a woman using a diet pill to help her lose weight.
In the first fad the women believe that if you tan they will be more attractive. In the second fad the lady wanted to loss weight because she thought she was gaining more weight and she was upset because she was not as active any more.
The effects of the tanning were that the women had very bad skin damage and may lead to skin cancer. The effects of the diet pill were it caused headaches, mood swings, nausea, insomnia and a racing heart.
Conclusion
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