Heath Fads: Fact or Fiction?

Introduction

1. Oxygen Shots. Famous celebrity and X-Factor judge Simon Cowell uses these oxygen shots. The product is claimed to reduce the visible signs of ageing, but in actuality, it increases the signs of ageing, and is quite bad for your skin!
2. The Sauna Suit. This product has no celebrity endorsements, just the product. This suit is said to help get rid of weight by trapping sweat in your suit and over-heating you. Yeah, you guessed it, its a recipe for disaster. When it traps your sweat and you get heat stroke. Bad.
3. Colonics. Celebrities Sylvester Stalone and Gwyenth Paltrow use this way of flatting your tummy before a big game, or a red carpet or any event. But, like all health fads, it has a dark side. It uses water pressure, but if the pressure is too high, you can die!
4. The Purple Diet. Famous diva Mariah Carey was known for trying it and she claimed it changed her life! But like all health fads, its fake! Since its so unbalanced, it can hurt your mental health.
5. Coconut oil Diet. There was a lot of debate about this health fad. In was tested in the 1970's and 80's and was deemed unhealthy because they had used hydrogenated coconut oil, not unprocessed virgin coconut oil, which is good! Give it a try!

Task

1. How is the fad promoted/marketed? By billboards, Tv ads, magazines and newspapers.
2. Insert an Ad from a health fad chosen.
3. Why would the ad be succsessful?Because it uses colours, a picture of the placenta in the back, it has the reasons in bold letters that you can see and it is written by a mother site for new mothers.
4. Why would the ad be unsuccsessful? It has the placenta which can make people scared of cutting it out, the site may be a fake with bad things to do.
5. Which fad would you try? I would try the coconut oil diet, since i love the taste of coconut, i use coconut oil as a moisterizer and as a massage agent in relaxation, and i sometimes drink coconut water as a snack.
6. Which fad wouldn't you try? I wouldn't try the sauna suit. It is pretty bad on its own you have to sweat which i don't like, and plus, you can get heatstroke.
7. What are the side effects? The impacts of coconut oil, would be that if you do use the wrong type of cocnut oil, it can be quite bad as it can increase your cholestrol levels.

Process

Health Fad	Kimkins Diet.
Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)	Heidi Kimberly "Kimmer" Diaz.
Duration of Health Fad	Ongoing
Reason for going on Health Fad	Weight Loss
Symptoms	Hair loss, fainting, irregular heartbeat.
Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?	No, it just promotes the symptoms above.
Details of other similar cases	Lighterlife blog/magazine promoted a similar case.

Health Fad	Red Bull Diet
Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)	23 year old woman.
Duration of Health Fad	Up to 23 redbulls a day.
Reason for going on Health Fad	Weight loss.
Symptoms	Heart attacks, heart murmurs, severe cramping and anxiety.
Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?	The woman lost a little wait, but overall, it was quite bad for her health.
Details of other similar cases	General public.

Evaluation

1. The two fads featured in the show were Tanning Beds, and Phentermine pills for weight loss. Tanning beds are used for good looking skin, but can act as an agent in premature aging of the skin, the beds emit radiation, as well as skin cancer and burns. Phentermine is used as a weight loss agent, but the same chemical makeup, makes up anphetamine, (or methanphedamine), an illegal substance which is addictive. it does reduce weight, but it is quite bad for your health.
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Conclusion

We all know what a coconut is, so what if you could eat or even use it with your daily beauty routine? Would you do it? Well that is our next topic.
Doctors back in the late 70's said that coconut oil was bad for you and you should avoid it at all costs, but it was not studied with the right type of coconut oil, since hydrogenated coconut oil is bad, and unprocessed virgin coconut oil is good. Like mentioned, people use it as a moisturiser and for other culinary uses.
In the end, and for the first time on this list, we have a try! See if it works for you, and it is completely and utterly safe! Scientists say that it can be used to burn fat since it has such high medium-chain-triglycerides or MCT's. While its quite slimy and slippery, it can reduce acne and is naturally antibacterial and antiviral!

Credits

Mariah Carey is well known, and so is her diet apparently, so lets dive deep into purple's galore with our next topic, the purple diet. This diet consists of only eating purple foods, obviously, but it is safe for us to try?
Doctors say that purple fruits and vegetables such as purple carrot, purple lettuce, berries are naturally good for you, but having too much of one good thing wont last forever. Since you cut out other things, your body can't function or you start to get sick quickly, because other foods are no longer needed.
since its so unbalanced, please don't try this diet! Even superstars make mistakes, huh Mariah?

Teacher Page

Our final fad is common among the most popular fads. You got it, the placenta diet! Mad Men actress January Jones is known for taking these pills. The worst part is, its from your body! Its from your placenta which would provide oxygen to a baby. She revealed that they take your placenta, dry it and make into pills, which you can consume after a pregnancy to recover, and it also stops post-mortem depression.
But when nutritionist Mira Carlton looked further into this fishy story, she found that it only replaces a little iron and really shouldn't be consumed, even after pregnancy. So that ends it on a no, for all the right reasons.