Introduction
| Health fads | Description |
| Belt pack | Is used for mountian sports |
| Kinesio tape |
Is used to help injuries and so athletes can have tighter musles |
| Box jumps | Are used to help build up your leg muscles to be stronger. |
| charcole tablets |
Used to detox your skin |
| Lemon detox | Diet that does nothing good to you but more bad |
| Eating clay | a famous actor brought in the phase of eating clay but it did not turn out |
Task
| Health fads | kinesio Tape |
Charcoal tablets |
Lemon Detox |
| How is each fad promoted/marketed? | Kinesio tape is marketed by milgreens And other sport retails/outlets |
Alibaba.com promotes charcoal tablets online. |
Lemon detox is promoted by blogs and fitness people. |
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Find an example advertisement for one of the fads and insert into this worksheet |
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Explain why you think the promotion/marketing of these fads would be successful |
It would be sucseessful for kinesio tape because it helps athletes not hurt there wounds more when they are competing | It may be successful because some people will want to detox or Botox and so that will suit them. | Lemon detox could be successful because some people want to have better skin |
| Explain why you think the promotion/marketing of these fads would be unsuccessful | The marketing could be unsuccessful because the kinesio tape could be faulty or cause side effects that are bad | It could be unsuccessful because of the side effects and because your skin and body will not be as natural as it used to be. |
It could be unsuccessful because people can get side effects and can be sick. |
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Which of the 3 fads you selected would you be most likely to try and WHY? |
Kinesio tape because it will prevent further injury to previous injury. | Already completed | Already compleTed |
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Which of the 3 fads would you be least likely to try and WHY? |
CharcoLe tablets because it detoxes your skin and it will make your body less natural Than what it was. | Already completed | Already completed |
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What are the negative side effects for each? |
You can be allergic to adhisive in the tape | Constipation, diarrhea and vomiting vomiting. | Lemon detox can have side effects such as extreme hunger and food cravings. |
Process
| Health fad | planking | Cotton ball diet |
| Person (Name, Age, Gender, photo) | Lisa,female | Zac,16,male |
| Duration of Health Fad | 1 week | 1 month |
| Reason for going on Health Fad | To make her muscles stronger | To have a slimmer body |
| Symptoms | Pain for several months | antagonizing pain or death |
| Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way? | No it only made Lisa have pain in her shoulder And breast | the health fad worked and made the 16 year old skinny but the materials in it were to bad for the body and he died. |
| Details of other similar cases | ? | ? |
Evaluation
| Dangerous health fads | Skin tan | Phenterming | |
| Types of Fads in the tv show – including details of each | Skin tanning can cause skin cancer and you will have to get it cut out | ||
| Types of people who normally are involved in these fads and reasons why they want to do these fads | Are people who want to have a darker skin and that they have really light skin to begin with | ||
| Side effects | Moles, defects to the skin and skin cancer | ||
Conclusion
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