Introduction
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HEALTH FADS |
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The Grapefruit Diet (1930) |
Eat a grapefruit at every meal. This is low in calories. |
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The cabbage soup Diet (1950) |
Eat this evryday it promises losing 10-15 pounds a day |
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The Sleeping beauty Diet (1970) |
Involves sedating yourself. Apparentally Elvis tried this. |
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The new Diet revolution - Atkins (1992) |
An high protein, low - carb plan |
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Thigh Master (1980's) |
Put it between your legs and the squeeze it to gets great looking thighs |
Task
TASK B
1. How is each fad promoted/marketed?
Through tv or internet.
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
Everyone is wanting to look and feel good so they will try anything.
4. Explain why you think the promotion/marketing of these fads would be unsuccessful
There is so many health fads out there to chose from it would be hard to know what one is right.
5. Which of the 3 fads you selected would you be most likely to try and WHY?
I would probably try the Grapefruit diet as I like fruit.
6. Which of the 3 fads would you be least likely to try and WHY?
I wouldnt like to try the Cabbage Soup diet because it doesnt look appitsing I dont eat vegetables anyway.
7. What are the negative side effects for each?
With the food diets you would probably put the weight back on because you wouldnt live on these diets.
The thighmaster is something that maynot do what it suppose to do which is tighten your thighs.
TASK C
Health Fads have caused death or serious illness/injury
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Health Fad |
Atkins Diet |
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Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo) |
Kathy Barnett, 16 year old girl from US |
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Duration of Health Fad |
8 days |
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Reason for going on Health Fad |
loose weight |
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Symptoms |
heart problems, kidney problems, loss of energy |
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Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way? |
no |
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Details of other similar cases Jody Gorran 50 years old went on Alkins diet and later started getting chest pains. He had blockages to the heart but luckily caught it in time and had a stent put in |
Task D
1. Types of Fads in the tv show – including details of each
Diet Pill - Phentermine. Take one a day to loose weight
Sun beds - Tannings beds to help you get brown
2. Types of people who normally are involved in these fads and reasons why they want to do these fads
Most of the people are normally woman that like to try health fads. The reasons people try these is to look better.
3. Side effects
Diet pill - feeling sick, dizzy, headaches, depression, heart racing
Sun beds - skin cancer, wrinkles
4. Research information on the fads from the show to find more interesting facts to include in your mini report
Sunsbeds started in 1970's but became very popular in the 1990's.
Phentermine diet pill can give you more energy, loose lots of weight but has too many bad side effects
Task E
Process
TASK C
Health Fads have caused death or serious illness/injury
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Health Fad |
Atkins Diet |
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Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo) |
Kathy Barnett, 16 year old girl from US |
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Duration of Health Fad |
8 days |
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Reason for going on Health Fad |
loose weight |
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Symptoms |
heart problems, kidney problems, loss of energy |
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Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way? |
no |
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Details of other similar cases Jody Gorran 50 years old went on Alkins diet and later started getting chest pains. He had blockages to the heart but luckily caught it in time and had a stent put in
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Evaluation
1. Types of Fads in the tv show – including details of each
Diet Pill - Phentermine. Take one a day to loose weight
Sun beds - Tannings beds to help you get brown
2. Types of people who normally are involved in these fads and reasons why they want to do these fads
Most of the people are normally woman that like to try health fads. The reasons people try these is to look better.
3. Side effects
Diet pill - feeling sick, dizzy, headaches, depression, heart racing
Sun beds - skin cancer, wrinkles
4. Research information on the fads from the show to find more interesting facts to include in your mini report
Sunsbeds started in 1970's but became very popular in the 1990's.
Phentermine diet pill can give you more energy, loose lots of weight but has too many bad side effects
Conclusion
Credits
Conclusion
what I learnt from doing this is that you have to be careful chosing the right health fad as there are so many out there that can be dangerous to your health.
Companies advertise these health fads with a promise to look better.
You don't need any of these health fads to be healthy. As long as you eat healthy, excercise regulary and get enough sleep is a healthy you!