Health fads

Introduction

Task Outline

  • Critically analyse and assess health-related trends and fads including the use of planned diets and exercise regimes

  •  Recognise myths and fallacies related to product marketing claims

  • Complete a series of tasks in the format of a WebQuest to raise awareness of these findings with peers

1.Complete the Introduction section of your WebQuest to give an overview of Health Fads and what the assignment is about.

2. Complete the Task section of yourWebQuest which has a small amount of details about what you have to do for Task's A,B,C,D and E

3. The Process section will contain all your answers to each Task and Conclusion (see links below) with headings and pictures.  

 







Task

Health Fad

Details

 Lemon diet

it takes 1 week until it starts working

 Here is how you make the lemon diet drink, 1-1½ Lemons - squeezed (2tbsp of lemon juice)300ml filtered water2 tsp Quality organic maple syrup (or cinnamin stick if preferred)Pinch of Cayenne pepper.drink and your ready to go.

 Diet Pills/tlablets

 You can take diet pills to lose weight,they can cost alot of money though you would put one in your mouth and swallow with water or a drink.

 The cabbage soup diet

 Again this is a very low calorie diet that barely provides enough energy to maintain normal body function and eliminates a large number of food groups, thus putting essential nutrient intake at risk.Not only this, but it is likely to induce symptoms such as gas, bloating and diarrhea, which is likely to leave you dehydrated.  It doesn’t taste that great either!

 Eating Tapeworm

 Some people have said that you can eat a tape worm and it will eat away things in your stomach so you can lose weight, well you can, fact: tapeworms can grow up to 6.1 meters long.

 The vinegar Diet

 Drink plenty of vinegar and water daily, in addition to a cup of tea with a raw egg mixed in.

1. How is each fad promoted/marketed?lemon diet: wikitablets: televisionvinegar diet: wiki

2. Find an example advertisement for one of the fads and insert into this worksheet.

3. Explain why you think the promotion/marketing of these fads would be successful.

because it looks nice and i think would drink if i was offerd to drink it.

4. Explain why you think the promotion/marketing of these fads would be unsuccessful.

because some people may not like lemons so they may not buy or drink it.

5. Which of the 3 fads you selected would you be most likely to try and WHY?

I think the lemon diet because i like lemon and think it would taste nice.

6. Which of the 3 fads would you be least likely to try and WHY?

the viniegar diet because viniegar taste a bit sour and mixed with egg even worse.

7. What are the negative side effects for each?

The viniegar diet i dont like viniegar and with egg i think it would taste worse.

The lemon diet some people dont like lemons so they may not drink it/like it.

The tablets because if u dont like tablets and to swalow them then you may not want to take tablets.

Health Fad

tapeworm diet

Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)

 ellen connolly

Duration of Health Fad

 1-2 weeks

Reason for going on Health Fad

 

Symptoms

 feeling drowzy, don't feel like doing anything much. 

Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?

50 50 it did but did not come out very well

 

Task Dphentermine she wanted to lose weight so she tried phentermine her husband said that she was cranky some times and she could not get to sleep at night. Phentermine, a contraction of "phenyl-tertiary-butylamine", is a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class, with pharmacology similar to amphetamine. It is used medically as an appetite suppressant.Task E

Jennifer Aniston’s Baby Food Diet

she did the baby food diet, she ate 14 servings of baby food and her regular food servings.lose muscle as well as fat, which can reduce your overall metabolism. It can also make you super moody and hungry!

Brooke Shields’ Grapefruit Diet

 she did the grape fruit diet, This diet is an oldie, but stars such as Brooke Shields still swear by it. Before every meal, dieters eat half a grapefruit, which supposedly contains fat-burning enzymes that promote weight loss.
behind the weight loss is self-induced starvation, with caloric levels comparable to what diagnosed anorexics eat.

Beyoncé’s Maple Syrup Diet

she did the maple syrup diet,singer-actress Beyonce reportedly sipped a sweet lemon-syrup drink for nearly two weeks to drastically reduce her weight. health, such as significant increases in depression, social withdrawal, and declines in concentration and judgment capabilities.

Conclusion

1.what you have learned from completing the various tasks.

I have learned many health fads and what the health fads do to help you loose weight.

2.how do companies get people to try various health fads.

by advertisement on the t.v with good pictures of the health fad and how much weight you will or would loose from the health fad.

3.design a better strategy for good health outcomes that would work over a long term.

everyday in the morning drink a glass of juice and go for an excrize either on a tredmill or go for a run outside/ jog outside dont go back on the fatty food until you are at your target weight.