HEALTH FADS OR TRENDS

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

A Health Fad is  fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.to choose a diet to loose weight and to make a goal to do something.

Task A: Make a table in the process tab,you have to have examples of New and old health trends.

Task B:We have to answer a seven question quiz about health fads ,you have to use full sentences.

Task C: Research online to find examples of people how have tryed doing a Heath trend and they have ended up in hospital or even death,then put that information in a table using the questions in that table to complete it.

Task D: Write a report that shows information you have found in the video Dangerous Fads by Dr Phill.

Task E:Research about 3 famous people who have tried a health trend and design a chain diagram that has labels of the negative effects of that health trend.

Task A:

Health Fad	Details
Tapeworm diet:	Tapeworm diet This parasite gets rid of your hungry thought and absorbs the food you are digesting,making you lose weight. After eating a tapeworm most people can die from infection.So most people take the risk and eat the tapeworm just to lose weight.    Sometime in the 50s, people started infecting themselves with tapeworms in order to lose the weight.
HCG Diet	The HCG Diet pumps a hormone in to you to make you not eat as much so you start losing weight. The diet was established in 1938.
Fruit Juice	With juice you get vitamins and antioxidants,without getting extra sugars. Couldn't find any history on the juice diet.
Food Replacement Shakes	All you need to add is some water and a few other ingredients, this with give you Low Gi,high in protein!low in Carb,low Fat E.T.C. So this replaces the normal sandwich for lunch or use this shake for breakfast. Food replacment diets have been used since  1977,companies started making this deit from then.
The lemon Detox Diet	The Lemon Detox Diet works with the body's cleaning system to help clean out the toxins and to lose fat naturally. The lemon detox diet has been changing lives for more than 70years.

 

 

 

lemon detox advertisment. Task B:

1.    How is each fad promoted/marketed?

-The Lemon Detox diet is promoted on beaches,in shops and when you type lemon detox into the internet.

- Tapeworm diet was an early invention,so the advertisment wasn't as good as to now days, it was advertised or marketed through posters in gyms,shopping centres,newspapers because back in the 50's most people would read the advertisments.

-Food Replacment Shakes Diet is marketed on shop shelves and in gyms and also on the internet.

 

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xltjAQDyhk

This video is on Today a news show in the U.S.

It shows how this trend is promoted in the good and the bad way, all around the world.

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

The different marketing would be successful because if people are reading the newspaper and they see an add of the food repalcement diet, they can look into what it is about and how to start.

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

Marketing of these trends might be unsuccessful if people are really sick of all the adds and could get very angry or the other bad thing is when people don't read the adds or the add dosen't catch the readers eye.

 

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

I would not try any of them but if I had to I would choose the the lemon detox diet, because I like lemons and it cleans out the toxins and other bad stuff.

 

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

I would definatley not try the tapeworm because it is wired thinking that there is a tapeworm growing in you and that it is eating all your food in your stomach,plus you can die from tapeworms.

 

7.   What are the negative side effects for each?

Tapeworm:It can cause a person to become seriously ill and could lead to fatal death.

Lemon Detox diet: Minor changes in blood pressure, dizziness, headaches or migraines it can also make you moodiness and depressed.

Food Replacement Diet: Can cause you to feel tired and fatigued throughout the day,also you lose the amount of calories you should have.

Task C:

Health Fad	food replacement shakes
Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)	female and male
Duration of Health Fad	2 Shakes a day till ready to stop.
Reason for going on Health Fad	to lose wieght and to build there confinence
Symptoms	You don't get yout total calouries per day, start felling hungry.
Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?	Yes, but didnt give your persentige of calouries each day.
Details of other similar cases	Dieting only eating curtain food.

Health Fad	Tapeworm diet
Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)	Lowa Women (tries tapeworm)
Duration of Health Fad	Start whenever and finish when you start getting pains.
Reason for going on Health Fad	To lose weight fast.
Symptoms	Adominal pain and upset stomach.
Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?	Yes helped lose weight.
Details of other similar cases

Task D:

Mini Report:

 In this viedo doctor Phil interviewed two Ladies who had been tanning their bodies which isnt a good thing because it can cause Melanomas and cancers and especislly if you tan in a booth before the age of 35. Another topic they talked about is the Phentermine Pill which would make you lose wieght, the lady that got intervewied had been taking this pill for 9months but the guideline is to only take it for 3months.

People who normally do these fads are people who think that it is cosmetic and that they need to be tanned to fit in with everyone else.

Side effects of each trend:

Tanning causes melanomas if if you go into a tanning booth before 35 and having surgery to remove the cancer.

Phentermine pill causes you to have over loads of energy and moodiness,naushessness,dizziness and all of that could cause you to passout,plus heart problems and depression.

Interesting Facts:

With the Phentermine pill is that there has not been a

clinical trial done on it to find out more, before this pill came out in the 1960's.

Out of the 28 Million people who tan indoors,2.3Million are teens

 

 

 

 Task E

 

 

  

 

 

 

Q1.What you have learned from completing the various tasks?

A1.From this assignment I didn't learn to much but the one thing I did learn was that you shouldn't really try any fads because most of them have side effects that can be life threatning.

 

Q2.How do companies get people to try various health fads?

They can brib you by telling you that they will give you a free starter pack to try this new health Trend.

If for example you sign up to a gym they can be sending you emails tring to make you try the Fad.

 

 

Q3.Design a better strategy for good health outcomes that would work over a long term?

To make the dieter go and see a doctor to make sure that the person is doing the right thing with the diet and for the doctor tell the dieter about the fad.