Introduction
| HEALTH FADS | EXPLANATION |
| The Werewolf Diet | Also Known As The Lunar Diet, This Diet Requires you to fast based on the lunar calendar. You will have to fast for one full day only having water or other liquids on a full or new moon. You are most likely to lose up to 2.7 kilograms a day. |
| The Cookie diet | This Diet was made by Dr Siegal. you need to eat about 500-600 calories of it high protein cookies. You can have normal dinners for a total of 1000-1200 calories a day. |
| The Grapefruit Diet | For this diet you mostly focus on eating grapefruits or grapefruit juice. This fruit contains stuff that gets rid of fat fast. From doing this Diet you will lose around 5 kilograms in one day. |
| The Edge Of Starvation Diet | Also Know As The HCG Diet, you are limited to 500 calories a day. You will have an injection that will make you not feel hungry. You will lose weight fast but only because of the severe calorie loss. |
| The Alkaline Diet | For this Diet you are not to eat any meat, diary products, lollies, artificial or processed foods. You are required to eat a lot of fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts. This Diet is strict on the foods that you are allowed to eat. |
Task
How is each Health Fad that you chose promoted/marketed?
You will see the Cookie Diet promoted in shopping centers, on radio, television and in magazines.
You will see the Werewolf diet promoted by television.
You will see the Grapefruit Diet promoted in supermarkets and on radio.
Find an example advertisement for one of the fads you have chosen.
https://www.cookiediet.com.au/
Explain why you think the promoting/marketing of these fads would be successful.
I think it would be successful because the advertising producers pay famous people to be in their advertisement. Having famous people will make people want to try it more because a famous person is trying it and people want to be like them.
Explain why you think the promotion/marketing of these fads would be unsuccessful.
I think it would be unsuccessful because most things shown on advertisements are not the real results of the product/fad. The producers of the advertisements lie and make what they are trying to sell look so much better than it really is. Another reason these would be unsuccessful is that people know the stars/famous people are getting paid to this and is not actually real.
Which of the diets that you selected would you most likely to try?
I would be most likely to try The Werewolf Diet/Lunar Diet because it does not sound as bad as the other diets that I chose. I would also choose this diet because I like the idea of this fad being based on the moon.
Which of the diets that you chose would you be least likely to try?
I would be least likely to try The Grapefruit Diet because the person eats grapefruits only and I have heard people have died from this diet. I would also not try this diet because I don't like grapefruits.
What are the negative side effects for each fad that you chose?
The negative side effects for The Werewolf Diet are that you will loose weight so quickly that it will become unhealthy.
The negative side effects for The Grapefruit Diet is that you will feel dizzy, head pains, feel like throwing up and have a dry mouth.
The negative side effects for The Cookie Diet is that you will feel extremly hungry.
Process
| The Diet | The Medifast Diet |
| Person and details | Oprah Winfrey, Female, 63 years old, |
| Duration of health fad | She was on this diet for four months |
| Reason for going on health fad | To lose weight |
| Symptoms | You will start to go paranoid/ Throwing up, dizzy |
| Did the fad claim what is said in any way | Yes, the fad said that you will lose weight fast and that is what happened. |
| Details of other similar cases. | Kristy Swanson, lost 11.3 kilograms from this diet. Her symptoms were she was dizzy and was throwing up. |
Evaluation
Phentimine
The Phentimine diet is a pill that makes you lose weight very fast. This pill was approved by FDA (Food and Drugs Administrations) in 1959. You are only meant to take this pill for 3 months. The types of people who normally would try this diet are people that are over weight and don't like how they look. The side effects of this diet are you become very mean and you experience bad headaches.
Tanning
This fad is more aimed at young women who want to look better and impress other people. The side effects of this fad are that the people tanning are likely to get skin or sun cancer. Indoor tanning can cause really bad cancer such as skin cancer, melanoma, basel cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Only 1 of these cancers are deadly, but each one has bad effects on the body.
Conclusion
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Credits
What have you learnt about completing the various tasks?
I have learnt that not all health fads are what they look like, and a lot of them are very dangerous to us.
How do companies get people to try various health fads?
Companies are most likely to pay famous people to be in their advertisements, so that people are going to be more likely to try their product/fad because they want to be like them. Another reason is that the producers make their products look better they really are.
Design better strategy for good health outcomes that would work over a long term.
I think a better strategy for a good health outcome, is don't eat junk food and drink plenty of water. You will need to eat normally and do weekly exercises and you will find that you will lose weight over time.