Introduction
Health fads ia a diet craze.
- Critically analyse and assess health-related trends and fads including the use of planned diets and exercise regimes
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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 examples of current and old health fads.
Task B is to select three health fads from task A and answer the seven questions.
Task C is to make two tables and research online where health fads have caused death.
Task D is to watch the show 'Dangerous Fads' and create a mini report.
Task E is to find pictures of three famous celebrities who have tried a health fad.
Process
Task A
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Health Fad |
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banana diet |
eat one banana every morning for seven days and eat banana at lunch time. |
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lemon detox diet |
drink it in morning and before you go to the bed. It consisted of a cocktail of water, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup. |
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apple diet |
eat a apple in breakfast and have a apple apple in lucnh and dinner to and then for day 2 eat apple with salad then start having meals with apple and amke sure you eats apples everyday. |
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banana diet |
starting the day with a lukewarm glass of water and a banana. |
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orange diet |
drink as mucuice as you want. All you need are sun ripened organic oranges and an electric citrus juicer. |
TTask B
Orange diet, apple diet and lemon diet are the three health fads that I have chose.
1. All of these diets are promoted on the internet.
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3. I think that promoting these health fads on the internet would be successful because people use the internet.
4. I think that promoting these health fads on the internet would be unsuccessful because if people didn't follow the diet properly.
5. If I had to choose one of the health fads it would be the lemon diet because i like lemon.
6. The least likely one that I would try is the apple diet because i could not eat that much apples.
7. The negative side effects for lemon diet, apple diet and orange diet is lack of nutrition.
Task c
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Health fad |
Lemon detox diet |
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Person(name, age, gender, photo) |
Helen Thompson, age 34, female |
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Duration of health fad |
For a week |
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Reason for going on health fad |
To lose baby wieght |
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symptoms |
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Did the health fad achieve what claimed in any way? |
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Details of other similar cases |
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Health fad |
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Person(name, age, gender, photo) |
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Duration of health fad |
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Reason for going on health fad |
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symptoms |
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Did the health fad achieve what claimed in any way? |
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Details of other similar cases |
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Health fad |
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Person(name, age, gender, photo) |
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Duration of health fad |
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Reason for going on health fad |
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symptoms |
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Did the health fad achieve what claimed in any way? |
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Details of other similar cases |
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