Introduction
| Health fads | Details |
| Cotton ball diet | Eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice |
| Cookie diet | Eat nothing but cookies for every meal |
| Raw food diet | Eat only raw food |
| Juice diet | Only drink juice (fruit and veg) |
| Grapefruit diet | Only eat or drink grapefruits |
Task
My three health fads are cookie diet, raw food diet and juice diet.
1. Cotton ball diet is promoted by people online.
raw food diet is promoted by magazine articles and vegetarian festivals.
juice diet is promoted online and famous people.
3. The promotion of these fads would be successful because it encourages you to lose weight.
4. The promotion of the fads would be unsuccessful because you could not stay on the diet all of the time.
5. If I had to pick one I would chose the cookie diet because I love cookies.
6. Out of the three fads I would least like to try raw food because I like some of my food cooked.
7. Negative effects for cookie diet is you put the weight back on.
negative effects for raw food diet is you don’t get the right amount of things like calcium for your bones.
negative effect for juice diet is your teeth will go yellow.
Process
| Health fad | Atkins diet |
| Person(name,age,gender,photo) | 16 year old girl |
| Duration of health fad | eight days |
| Reason for going on health fad | To lose weight |
| Symptoms | Irregular heart beat causing a heart attack |
| Did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way | She lost weight but it caused her to have a heart attack and she sadly died |
| Details of other similar cases | 41 year old male |
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Health Fad |
breatharianism |
| Person (name,age, gender, photo) | 49 year old female Verity Linn |
| Duration of health fad | 21 days |
| Reason for going on health fad | spiritual |
| Symptoms | starvation |
| Did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way | no she died |
| Details of other similar cases | Germany, Britain and Australia |
Evaluation
Dangerous Fads
1. Types of Fads
There were two types of Fads in the show. The first one was tanning beds and the next one was diet pills. People were addicted to both and both had bad side effects.
2. Types of people who are normally involved in these fads are women.
3 Side effects for tanning beds are skin damage and skin cancer. Side effects foe Phentermine diet pills are sickness, trouble sleeping and mood swings.
4. Tanning beds interesting facts are 70% of people who go to tanning salons are white females between 16 to 29 years old, the risk of melanoma is 75% higher for people who start tanning indoors before age 35.Diet pills interesting facts are doctors must prescribe the diet pills and not use the diet pills long term
Conclusion
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Credits
I have learned from completing the various tasks that health fads are bad for you. Some health fads work at first but not for a long term goal like losing weight. It can be very dangerous for your health and you could even die from tying a health fad.
Companies get people to try various health fads by advertising in magazines and social media sites and using celebrities to promote the health fad.
A better strategy for good health outcomes that would work over a long term would be a balanced healthy diet and exercise and no health fads because they are bad for your health.