heath fads

Introduction

A heath fad is a diet

Critically analyse and assess health-related trends and fads including the use of planned diets and exercise regimes
Recognise myths and fallacies related to product marketing claims
Complete a series of tasks in the format of a WebQuest to raise awareness of these findings with peers

Task

TASK:A is to make a table with current and old heath fads.

TASK:B is to select three heath fads from table in task A and ansewer 7 qustions about each heath fads.

TASK:C make a table about how heath fads have caused deaths.

TASK:D watch a show called dangerous fads and write a mini report.

TASK:E find 3 famous people who have tried heath fads.

Process

Task A

Health fads	details
Lemon Diet	You go on the lemon diet for 7 days and you will see your body change. You drink a Cocktail of water, Lemon juice, Cayenne pepper, Maple syrup.
Jenny Craig	Jenny Craig can help with fitness, weight, you get about 1200 calories per day depending on your height and weight
Lite n easy	Lite n easy is heath program that will deliver the diet food to your door. They have diets that contain 1200 calories,1500 calories and 1800 calories.
Tape worm	The tape worm eats the bad foods that go in to your body.
Atkins diet	The Atkins diet is a low carb diet.

TASK B

The three health fads that I have chosen are lemon diet, lite n easy and tape worm.

1. The lemon diet qnd lite n easy are both marketed on the internet. The tape worm health fad was marketed on the side walk.

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3. I think the marketing of these health fads would be successful because a lot of people go on the internet to sometimes buy things.

4. I think the marketing of these health fads would be unsuccessful beacuse some people could choke.

5. I would chose Lite n easy beacuse I've tried it before.

6. I would not try the tape worm diet because you could choke.

7. Some of the lite n easy meals don't taste good.

Task C

Health Fad	Lemon diet.
Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)	Beyonce Knowles.
Duration of Health Fad	It has been around for 70 years.
Reason for going on Health Fad	To lose weight, more energy and rejuvenate the body.
Symptoms	You don’t stay on the lemon detox diet for long enough to cause protein deficiency. Gain back the weight after going on it.
Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?	Its effective in short term weight loss and detoxifying the body for a short period of time. She lost 10 kilograms It also strips off muscle mass because it’s very low in protein.
Details of other similar cases	Mariah Carey swears by it and Bollywood star Tania Zaetta says it helped her during the stress of the Aussie troop sex scandal.

Health Fad	Cotton ball diet
Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo)	Young girls
Duration of Health Fad	Seven days, just eating whole cotton balls dipped in juice or lemonade.
Reason for going on Health Fad	To get thin and be more healthy
Symptoms	Choking, malnutrition and even death.
Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way?	No because they starve themselves and cause severe health problems. Some people on the diet have to go into hospital to be put on drips.
Details of other similar cases	Other cases are eating pica and wood.

Task D

The type of health fads that was shown on the Dr Phil show was tanning beds and slimming pills. The tanning beds are used by women to get a healthy darker skin colour. The slimming pills are used by young women to get slimmer. The side effects for the tanning beds are you may get skin cancer and this could develop into melanoma. The side effects for the sliiming pills are that they may not work, not getting enough nutrition and mood swings. Using a tanning bed before the age of 35 can incraese your chance of getting melanoma. If you use slimming pills you lose weight extremely fast.

Task E