Introduction
| Health Fads: | Details: |
| Meat juice: |
Valentine originally created it in 1870 for his sick wife. “The rich treasure stored and locked up in the body of the flesh” of raw meat and fed the resultant brew to his wife. She recovered, and Valentine decided to patent and bottle his creation. |
| Rattle snack oil: |
Chinese immigrants to the US in the late 1800s brought with them oil of the Chinese water snake, full of omega-3s, which they would rub on joints to help with inflammation. |
| Lentil flour: | Marketed as a cure-all health food. It cures habitual constipation, indigestion, piles, and all diseases originating in a disordered state of the bowels and action, without the aid of medicine, or any other artificial means. |
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Eating less meat |
Eating less meat is supposed to make you turn to other food choices, and help you not the focus so much on just eating meat. |
| Leeches: |
To prevent blood clots and dying tissue, leeches are able to consume excess blood, and the anticoagulant hirudin in the leech’s saliva will reduce swelling and promote healing. |
Task
Lentil flour:
Advertised on google / shops / adds
successful: it is used in lots of recipies to make other foods.
unsuccessful: the adds don't pop up lots, and I only new about it until I searched it up.
Leeches:
Advertised in the news paper
Sucsesful: so many people know about it.
unsucsesful: quite alot of people are squeamish or don't like looking at Leeches and don't like the idea of something sucking their blood.
Rattle snake oil:
Advertised on Facebook
Picture:
I think this will be succesful because when I typed up "how is rattlesnake oil marked?" The pictures came all up everywhere.
I think this will be unsuccessful because it is an old product
IF I HAD to try one it would probably be the Rattle Snake Oil because you don't eat it, it's just like a cream that you rub on your joints (kinda like ICE Gel)
I DO NOT want to EVER try the leeches, why, because there just gross. I get sick just looking at them, don't want them SUCKING my blood, and on purpose too!
Negative sign effects:
Rattle snake oil -- Headache, loss of libido and erections, fatigue and reduced exercise capacity, reduced sleep quality and duration, blood pressure changes (hypotension), and allergy, induction.
Lentil flour -- Flatulence, amino-acid, kidney distress and potassium toxicity.
Leeches -- Except from me vomiting, itchiness on the site of the bite for a few days, it is advised that patients avoid scratching the area because that could delay the healing.
Process
| heath fad | Leeches |
| person, name, age, gender and photo |
Miranda Kerr, aged 34, female
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| duration of heath fad | She keeps pet leeches in her koi pond, so she can kinda use them at any time. |
| reason for taking the fad | She claims that it helps achieve tighter and brighter skin (beauty). |
| symptoms | Leeches increase blood circulation and breaking up blood clots. They may be used to treat circulatory disorders and cardiovascular disease. Chemicals derived from leech saliva have been made into pharmaceutical drugs that can treat hypertension. |
| did the heath fad achieve what it claimed to be? | No-one has proved her wrong, yet |
| details of similar cases |
Demi Moore also let leeches suck on her blood for beauty. |
| heath fad | vegatarian |
| person, name, age, gender and photo |
Jane Ridley, aged (doesn't say) female, photo:
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| duration of heath fad | ??? |
| reason for taking the fad |
She didn't take it to protect animals, but after experiencing undiagnosed abdominal issues is when she decided to take the fad. |
| symptoms |
Some people go vegan because they think that it will stop killing animals (really, it kills the same amount of animals as I live next to a veggie farm and you would be surprised at how many gun shots we here some nights). Other people believe that it is a healthier way of living (but really if you look at a person that eats meat and a vegan, the vegan person will be a lot skinnier than the normal diet person - I'm not saying don't eat vegies though). But the internet says: "Vitamin B12 deficiency causes a number of symptoms and problems, including weakness, tiredness, constipation, loss of appetite, weight loss, poor memory, dementia, depression, problems with balance, and megaloblastic anemia. You may also experience nerve problems, such as numbness and tingling in the hands and feet." |
| did the heath fad achieve what it claimed to be? | No, she said that: “It was stopping me from leading a normal life full of social activities and other interests.” |
| details of similar cases | Bill Clinton went vegan for 2 years because of his love for animals, but then went back to eating meat because he was weak and gaining weight. |
Evaluation
Fads in the show:
1. Sending time in the sun
2. Pill called Phentermine
People who normally are involved in doing fads and reasons why they want to do it:
1. Erin and ashly why: Bueaty
2. Stephonie why: loses weight
Some side effects:
1. Hole in face, skin cancer, moles, wrinkles,
2. Life threatening, act mean / moody, heart beating really fast, passing out, she felt sick, no sleep,
Research information on the fads from the show to find more interesting facts:
1. Frequent sunburns or hours spent tanning can result in a permanent darkening of the skin, dark spots, and a leathery skin.
2. Phentermine is used with a doctor-approved exercise, behavior change, and reduced-calorie diet program to help you lose weight. It is used by certain overweight people, such as those who are obese or have weight-related medical problems.
Conclusion
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Credits
I have learned that leech therapy can be a way of beauty, Rattle snack oil is a thing and can be used as a treatment like ice gel, but in the oppsite way, that people who go vegan, when they break there diet, things can go hectic, lentil flour is a really popular ingredient, and meat juice is a thing and was made by a man trying to save his wife.
In watching the Fad show, learnt that spending too much time in the sun can give you holes in your skin, and that there was a pill for losing weight and about it.
And in doing the chain events I learnt that when you smoke, and eat junk, you can NEVER go back.
I think that people who set up a company do do a fad will be much more successful than a person just doing it if you are going to do the fad long term. This is because they can cheer you on when going through tough times. It will also encourage people to join you the more people come.
I think that a fad that will go long term will be a non makeover or piercings or tattoos ect. fad. It may seem like a not-so-fad-fad but as time goes on, I think that more and more people will put these things on. Like the person who said only eat veggies, now I know that is bad, but it would have probably started off as something like this, taking away somethings people thinks about getting, or putting on daily that is bad for your body if it happens regularly.
Like if you look at a person who starts to where makeup every day, it can look good on them. But as time passes the same person puts more and more makeup on because the skin under the makeup is slowly rotting from no air (yes skin needs to breath). And then the person feels scared because if she takes her makeup off, then every body will see her slowly rotting skin.
My Fad-but-no-so-fad-fad will help people from those situations.