Introduction
| health fads | details |
| purple diet | only eat purple food like cabbage, grapes, berries and plums. |
| gluten free fad | only eat gluten free food |
| lemon diet | only eat lemons for a few days |
| chew and spit | chew your food and spit it out |
| tapeworm diet | take a tapeworm pill once a day |
Task
| purple diet | gluten free diet | lemon diet | |
| 1 | It was advertised in the daily mail. | You would hear about it through word of mouth. | It was advertised by My Body and Soul. |
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| 3 | It would be successful because they have people who are skinny /fit show it off. | It would be successful because people think that its healthy | It would be successful because it looks healthy and its very bright and good looking |
| 4 | common sense | the cost for gluten free food is expensive so some people wouldn't spend the money on it | because most people don't like sour food |
| 5 | The GF diet because it doesn't change much of what I eat now. | ||
| 6 | I don't like sour stuff so the lemon diet is not for me. | ||
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Eating a diet full of just purple foods may increase the amount of flatulence you have.In addition focusing all your attention on just the one colour means you are missing out on lots of other nutrients offered by other coloured foods. |
diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, reflux, gas, or even vomiting. Meanwhile, you may also experience other symptoms, including fatigue, joint pain, brain fog, and even bouts of depression due to gluten. |
The side effects could be headaches, body aches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, burning bowel movements, lack of energy, dizziness and feeling faint. |
Process
| health fad | atkins diet |
| person (name, age, gender, photo) | a 16 year old girl from Missouri in the U.S. |
| duration of health fad | around day eight she collapsed |
| reason for going on health fad | She went on this diet because school was starting |
| symptoms | heart failure |
| did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way | lost 15 to 20lb |
| details of other similar cases | forty year old male died of a heart attack |
| health fad | Breatharianism |
| person (name, age, gender, photo) |
Verity Linn, age 49, female
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| duration of health fad | 21 days |
| reason for going on health fad | she was refusing to eat or drink in the belief it would 'spiritually cleanse' her body and 'recharge her both physically and mentally'. |
| symptoms | starvation |
| did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way | no |
| details of other similar cases | a Swiss woman in her 50's |
Evaluation
types of fads in the tv show were tanning beds and diet pills. The tanning bed tans people and the diet pills help people to lose weight.
young women and just women in general. to look slim and to feel better about them self.
tanning bed side effects: major skin damage and skin cancer. diet pills side effects: lose of sleep, aggressive behaviour and feeling sick all the time.
Women who use tanning beds more than once a month are 55% more likely to develop melanoma.
The number of skin cancer cases due to tanning is higher than the number of lung cancer cases due to smoking.
The risk of melanoma increases by 75% if someone starts to use a tanning bed before the age of 35.
Phentermine is available under different names.
Phentermine is a controlled substance, and should only be taken for a short period of time (no more than three weeks).
It was first approved as a diet drug in 1959, and has been on the market in various forms since then.
Credits
Almost all health fads are bad because of the side effects.
by saying all the good things about the fad but not the side effects that come with it.
eat properly, meat, fruit, vegetables and exercise, run, jog, Walk daily.