Health fads

I am choosing these three health fads: caffeinated lotions, stevia and the alli drug.

1. Caffeinated lotions are promoted by Internet, in shops and by celebrities. 

Stevia is promoted by the Internet, shops, and in bottles of soft drink. 

The alli drug is promoted by celebrities, shops and online. 

2. Caffeinated lotions 

Stevia 

The Alli drug 

3. I think that the caffeinated lotion promotion is good because it shows someone with good skin, and it is showing you that if you use this cream, you will have good skin that isn't aging.

I think that the stevia promotion is good because it it showing oh that yiu can still have sugary stuff, but it is healthy for you  such as coke.

I think that the alli drug is well promoted because it shows you that if you are overweight you can be normal weight and healthy again, by only taking a small tablet with every meal, instead of having to go exercising and eating healthy   

4. i think that some ways that caffeinated lotion ad is unsuccessful, because it doesn't show an old person on the front, so it might not take away wrinkles.

i think that the stevia add is unsuccessful in some ways because it diesnt say that it is healthier, or that drinks with stevia in them dont still have some artificial sweeteners  

I think that the alli drug is unsuccessful in some ways because it is not being easy such as ' all you have to do is take a tablet,' rather, it is about exercising and dieting   

5.  I would like to try the grapefruit fad, because it tastes nice, the same With the ice cream one and also the stevia one, because I like Coke  

6. I would be least likely to try the caffeinated lotions fad because it dehydrates your skin, and that would probably make you have skin problems when you're older, the alli drug fad because it might mess with your insides and the grapefruit fad because sometimes if you have too much grapefruit you can get sick of it  

I think the negative side effects of caffeinated lotions are that it could ruin your skin for when you get older, the negative side effects for stevia would be if Stevia becomes very popular, other sugar cane farmers might be out of a job. The negative side effects of the grapefruit fad could be that not everyone likes grapefruit, the negative side effects of the alli fad could be that it might mess with your stomach, And the negative side effect of the ice cream fad would be that you would be very unhealthy at the end, and would be quite sick of ice cream.  

1. a) Staying out in sun without sunscreen or going into a tanning booth to make skin look darker ( Getting tanned)
b) Diet pill called phentermine - pills that keep the weight off. The person taking it has to stay on it for three months and will lose lots of weight.
2. Types of people who normally are involved in these fads and reasons why they want to do these fads. For getting tanned, the people who normally want to do this, are people who want tanned skin, and they would want to do this because it is popular and they want to look nice as well. For taking the phentermine pill, people who are fat would most like to take this because then they would be skinny, and also because if you are fat you cannot do sport well.
3.Side effects: For getting tanned, the side effects are skin cancers, ageing before you are meant to and getting wrinkles. For the phentermine pills, some side effects are insomnia, nastiness, irritability, depression, bad headaches and dizziness, heart racing and feeling nauseous.
4. a) Interesting information on getting tanned : Radiation from just 10 indoor tanning sessions in two weeks can suppress a person’s cancer-fighting immune system. There are more tanning salons in major American cities than McDonald’s or Starbucks shops. 70% of people who go to tanning salons are white females between 16 to 29 years old.
b) Interesting information on the phentermine drug: Phentermine decreases appetite and stimulates the body to burn calories more quickly. Phentermine can be habit-forming.

I have learnt lots of things from completing the various tasks. One thing I have learnt is how if a celebrity tries something, heaps of others follow and try it as well, even if it it something that doesn't sound like it will work. Lots of people now days, and in the past, have been obese, so a lot of fads are based around trying to get skinnier, for example the tapeworm diet, the phentermine drug, vegetable drips, along with lots of others. Most of the reason most people go on health fads in the first place is either to feel good, or to impress others by looking good, which we don't need because it only matters what God thinks of us.

Companies get people to try their Health fad by lots of things. Some things are ads in the television, ads on the Internet, photos of celebrities trying it or recommending it. As I said before in the last paragraph, whatever celebrities try, people will follow. Companies also have signs saying " This product will make you healthier and have more energy" which lots of people want, although it may often not be true.

I think a good health fad would be drinking 2 litres of water a day, doing a 5 km run or walk and also mainly eating vegetables, fruit, salad and meat ( no lollies or chocolate or fizzy drink.) Just drinking water would make you feel healthier, as well as making your skin look Heathy, exercise and meat and vegetable +fruit +salad make you have more energy and help you to be skinnier, as well as it might help you feel happier.