Introduction
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Health Fads |
Details |
| Atkins Diet | It includes eating cheese seafood,meat and others. |
| The Fletchersim Diet | In this diet you chew each mouthful 32 times, or until it is liquid form. |
| The Sleeping Beauty Diet |
In this diet you normally eat less and exersize more. |
| The Cabbage Soup Diet | You guessed it its a diet were you only eat cabbage soup. |
| The Master Cleanse Diet | In this Diet you avoid food and instead have water with lemon added. |
Task
1.
Atkins uses famous people to advertise through television and internet advertisements, and by having their pictures on the packaging and posters/billboards. Sometimes they use experts on health to show why the diet is good for you and can help you lose weight
The Sleeping Beauty diet has been advertised on television and in magazines. You are meant to have 7-9 hours sleep a night. Some people use this diet but promote using sleeping tablets and drugs to get to sleep, which isn't advertised on television, but there are blogs that write articles about this.
The Fletcherism Diet is another old diet that was advertised through Horace Fletcher's lectures and by some famous people at the time trying his diet. He also wrote books about this diet, and other health ideas he believed.
2.
This is an advertisement for a Atkins. It shows the lady looking skinny and happy, which some people may think could happen to them.
This is the cover of one of Horace Fletcher's books on Fletcherism that is available on Amazon.
This is a book by Dr. Michael Breus about his version of the Sleeping Beauty Diet
3.
The Atkins advertisements may be successful because people want to lose weight and look good to friends and family. The celebrities show in advertisements how the product helped them lose weight, which makes people think they could look like them if they follow the diet too. People are also lazy sometimes and want to believe a product could make them lose weight without extra exercise.
The Sleeping beauty diet advertising may be successful as people don't have to buy expensive food or drinks. Lots of people use sleeping tablets too, so they would feel like they could start right away. It also seems very lazy so more people might do it.
The Fletcherism diet advertising would have been effective at the time as they didn't have the internet to do lots of research. Also because Horace Fletcher said the diet worked on him, people would have likely believed him. It also didn't cost them extra money as they just had to chew their food a lot.
4.
Sometimes the Atkins advertisements wouldn’t work because some people are not able to afford the diet foods, which can’t be changed even with good advertising. Also, some people may research it on the internet after seeing it advertised and realise that it might not work as well as the advertising was saying, or that they may have to exercise as well to get the results, which they might not want to do.
The Sleeping beauty diet advertisements may not be effective if people are very busy. Some people may not be able to get that much sleep, and they may not want to take tablets. Night shift workers might find it hard to follow this diet too.
The Fletcherism diet advertising may not have worked when people read about it and realised they would have to chew their food until it was liquid. Lots of people would think this was gross and wouldn't want to try it either.
5.
Out of The Atkins Diet, The Sleeping Beauty Diet, and The Fletcherism Diet, I would be most likely to try the Atkins Diet because I would still get to eat foods that I like such as bacon, sausages and eggs. They also have Atkins chocolate bars and shakes which would make it feel like you’re eating some normal foods too.
6.
I would be least likely to try The Fletcherism diet because I think it would be disgusting chewing food 32 times to turn it to liquid, and I think it’s weird to poo only once every couple weeks and it not smell at all.
7.
1. The Atkins Diet can result in bad breath, Tiredness, Weakness, Dizziness, Insomnia and Nausea.
2. The Cabbage Soup Diet results in starvation, Fatigue, Flatulence, Faintness, Moodiness, Frequent Urination.
3. The Sleeping Beauty Diet can result in over exercising which may result in death.
4. The Fletcherism Diet results in pooing only once every two weeks.
5. The Master Cleanse Diet results in, Dizziness, Nausea, Dehydration and Fatigue.
Process
Health Fad: The Atkins
| Health Fads | The Atkins Diet |
| Person (Name, Age, Gender, Photo) |
Dr Robert Atkins, 72, male.
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| Duration Of Health Fad | There isn’t much information on when Dr Atkins started his diet, however he published a book in 1972 about the diet, so probably about 31 years. |
| Reasons On Going On Health Fad | Dr. Atkins decided to go onto this diet because he wanted to invent a new diet and because he thought it was a healthy way to lose weight. He was also overweight. |
| Symptoms | Headache, bad breath, weakness, muscle cramp, fatigue, skin rash, nausea and constipation or diarea. |
| Did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way | Yes and no. Some people had lots of success however, people who do the Atkins Diet but still eat carbohydrates will put on more weight. If people have sicknesses already, this diet can sometimes make it worse too. Dr Atkins became very famous from this diet though. |
| Details of other similar diets | The Keto Diet is a modern version of the Atkins Diet. It is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet also. Halle Berry uses the Keto diet for weightloss also, and there is lots of research showing it works. Doctor will sometimes have patients do the Keto diet before and after lap-band surgery. |
| Health Fads | DNP - a diet pill that increases the metabolism. |
| Person (Name, Age, Gender, Photo) |
Eloise Parry, 21, Female. |
| Duration Of Health Fad | She had just bought the pills from the internet. |
| Reasons On Going On Health Fad | The article didn't say, but most likely to lose weight fast. |
| Symptoms | She began burning up, couldn't be cooled down, then she stopped breathing and her heart eventually stopped. |
| Did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way | No. She took 8 pills, and 2 are a lethal dose, so she died after taking these. |
| Details of other similar diets | There are lots of diet pills, like phentermine and duromine, but both of these need to be prescribed by a doctor. |
Evaluation
The first fad in the video was "sun addicts". There were two ladies who were addicted to tanning beds. Their skin was very brown and they had a doctor who was a plastic surgeon and fixed issues from people over tanning. They showed images of people who had large open wounds on their faces that the doctor had to fix. He said that they were even bigger under the skin, and sometimes he would have to open half their face to fix them. Tanning can lead to skin cancer and getting wrinkles earlier than normal. Teenagers and younger people are most likely to tan a lot as they see that on television and the magazines the most popular people are tanned. An interesting fact is that people who feel like they have to tan all the time are called Tanarexics. Also, apart from skin cancer, tanning beds that you lay on can have some really gross germs on them causing staph infections and even herpes.
The other fad in the video was 'phentermine' for weight loss. This is a weight loss pill that a doctor prescribes. Usually it's only people who are overweight who can get them. Phentermine is a drug similar to ecstasy, and it works by suppressing your appetite and giving you lots of energy. People taking it can have trouble sleeping, moods swings, depression, heart palpitations, headaches and dizziness. People can also get addicted to it. Interestingly, people who do horse racing and boxing professionally are not allowed to take phentermine as it's banned. Because it helps people lose weight, and horse racing and boxing have different weights the athletes have to be, this would give them an advantage, which is why it's not allowed. In June 2017 year jockey Michelle Payne was banned from riding for a month because she tested positive to phentermine.
Conclusion
During this assignment I learnt that some diets are very expensive, and that some diets may make you look skinny on the outside, but they always have side effects, and may affect your health badly on the inside. Some of these side effects can be nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, and mood swings etc. This assignment also taught me that average people aren't the only ones that are trying fad diets, but celebrities are doing these diets too. They might try and get to a certain weight that they think looks good, or to get ready for a role in a movie. So fad diets really affect everyone and it shows we all try to take short cuts sometimes.
The reason that fad diets make so much money, and people try them, is because most people don't like to work hard for the results, and want to take a short cut. Companies know this and know that if they promise lots of weight loss fast, that people will buy their product. Celebrities also make a lot of money from fad diets by appearing in their advertisements and on packaging, which can help the companies make more money as people want to look like celebrities, and think that they have to be skinny to be good looking, liked, and happy.
I don't think that all diets are bad if they include healthy food and exercise, or restricting things like sugar and processed foods. If I were to create a diet it would be something you could do for a long time and I would make sure you had to exercise too as that helps you be healthy inside and out. I have made a weekly list of what my diet and workout would look like. I think that you wouldn't lose weight very fast following my plan, but you would lose a lot over a long amount of time and then you wouldn't put it all back on later. If people ate healthy and exercised, then they wouldn't have to go on fad diets in the first place.
Monday:
Exercise: Swim squad for 45 minutes
Breakfast: Toast with eggs and an apple. Lunch: A chicken salad sandwich and some strawberries. Dinner: Steak with gravy, mash, and veggies.
Tuesday:
Exercise: A 30 minute jog
Breakfast: Yogurt with mixed berries. Lunch: A ham and cheese sandwich and some sultanas. Dinner: Sausages with mash and veggies.
Wednesday:
Exercise: A team sport session such as football or soccer
Breakfast: Weetbix with milk and a banana. Lunch: Chicken salad and some grapes. Dinner: Pork steaks with roast potatoes and veggies.
Thursday:
Exercise: Rest day
Breakfast: Toast and scrambled eggs. Lunch: A chicken and salad wrap and some strawberries. Dinner: Roast beef with roast veggies.
Friday:
Exercise: Go for a surf
Breakfast: Porridge with mixed berries. Lunch: Beef burger with salad. Dinner: Lasagna with mash potato.
Saturday:
Exercise: A bike ride
Breakfast: Yogurt with mixed berries. Lunch: A chicken salad. Dinner: Lamb Chops with roast veggies.
Sunday:
Today would be another rest day, and today would be a cheat day for food so you could enjoy eating out with friends or having a family dinner.