Introduction
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Health Fad |
Details (explain details of the fad IN YOUR OWN WORDS – DO NOT copy and paste) |
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Purple diet |
People think if you only eat puple food you will loose weight quickly, but you miss out on all the other vitamins from the other foods. |
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Hot Pants |
people belive that by wearing special clothing it will increase your bodies tempreture and melt fat. |
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Aerated choclate |
they create air bubbles in the choclate to reduce the calories by reducing the overall total amount of choclate eaten |
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oxygen shots |
by breathing in fresh oxygen it is meant tomake you look younger less tied and less stessed. |
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Going gluten free |
People are not eating gluten because they think it will help them loose weight. Only people who have been diagnosed as gluten intolerant should do this, otherwise you do not get all the nutrients your body needs. |
Task
How is each fad promoted/marketed?
Purple diet
The purple diet is promoted as a super rapid weight loses technique. It is promoted by using celebrities like Mariah Carey. It is marketed on websites and magazines. It is marketed to people wanting to lose weight.
Hotpants
Hotpants is promoted as a solution to lose weight by burning fat through thermogenic, heating up the body’s heat internally. It is marketed by advertising through magazines, papers and online sales.
Oxygen Shots
Oxygen shots are promoted as making people look younger, give people more energy, increase concentration, relaxation and help people feel better faster after exercise. It is marketed through opening oxygen bars and advertisements on TV, newspapers and online.
2. Find an example advertisement for one of the fads and insert into this workshe
Process
| Health Fad | tape worm diet |
| Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo) |
Lowa women has (doesn't show name) gender female age uknowen |
| Duration of Health Fad | 2 weeks for it to eat the fat |
| Reason or going on Health Fad | To loose a couple of pounds |
| Symptoms |
Headache weakness pain constipation |
| Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way |
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Health Fad |
Atkins diet |
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Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo) |
16yo girl, 41 year old man |
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Duration of Health Fad |
Unknown |
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Reason for going on Health Fad |
To loose weight |
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Symptoms |
Loss of energy, difficulty concentrating, kidney and heart problems |
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Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way? |
Yes |
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Details of other similar cases |
Jennifer Antision and other celebrities |
Evaluation
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Types of Fads in the tv show – including details of each: sun tanning and pheniomest tanning and phenomist.
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Types of people who normally are involved in these fads and reasons why they want to do these fads- people that usally that want to get tanned or loose weight so they look more attrective but thats not true they cause you to have skin cancer which is not attractive and people think that phenomist is good yeah you loose weight but it causes you to be mean and have moods.
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Side effects: tanning causes cancer and you become sick and leads you too the hospital phenomist pills they help yo uloose weight but they cause you to become really sick and too become really moody, angry neauses and disey.
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Research information on the fads from the show to find more interesting facts to include in your mini report- people even after they have had bad things happen too them some people will do it again cause they either become tanner or they loose weight but once they have started doing it again they have put there self in danger and could possibly kill there selves.
Conclusion
Credits
- what you have learned from completing the various tasks: that some health tips can be very dangerouse towards your body and could kill you
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- how do companies get people to try various health fads: by saying that they could be thin forever and they dont add that theres side effects like headeches and sickness
- design a better strategy for good health outcomes that would work over a long term: meat only and milk u could get the caluim from the milk an dorthe other vitienms and all the other thing you need
- what you have learned from completing the various tasks: that some health tips can be very dangerouse towards your body and could kill you
o
- how do companies get people to try various health fads: by saying that they could be thin forever and they dont add that theres side effects like headeches and sickness
- design a better strategy for good health outcomes that would work over a long term: meat only and milk u could get the caluim from the milk an dorthe other vitienms and all the other thing you need