Introduction
| THE FAD NAME | What is in the fad and what is does |
| Bee venom | Bee venom is made by bees in the wild. Being stung repeatedly under the skin causes the skin to become more immune to bee stings. |
| Ear candling | Ear candling is when you place a long cone coated with beeswax and placing it in the ear and letting it burn thus creating a vacuum effect which is created in the ear canal. This vacuum effect draws earwax out thus curing a wide range of medical problems. |
| Green drinks | Green drinks are mostly made up of veggies. These green drinks allow you to have vegetables as most people don't get enough veggies. |
| Tape worm diet | The tape worm diet uses living tape worms so they can eat all the un food the human host needs. It also eats up some of the bad bacteria growing in us. |
| Cow urine |
Cow urine is one of the most poular health fad in South Asia. It uses cow urine to kill the bacteria in your body but the taste is a bit of a concern. |
Task
Cow urine was promoted by it curing a wide range of medical problems. I think it would be succesful because due to its unique chemicals it would be a good medicine. I think it wouldn't be succesful because of all the bad bacteria in the cow urine. I would be most likely to try the green drinks because it is the most non weird one and I think I'll like it. I would most unlikely try the bee venom because it stings. Using cow urine could make someone very sick.
green drinks was promoted by a man who was trying a variety of different things. I think it would be successful because most people now like green smoothie or drinks and it has no bad ingridients. I think it wouldn't be succesful because some people might not like greens. The negative side of this fad is that you could use a mouldy ingredients and get sick from it.
The tape worm diet fad bacame promotional by scientists and tape worms. I think it will become succesful because most people can be desperate to lose weight easily. I think it won't become succesful because most people will see the error in it which is putting a parasite in your body. The negative side to this fad is that it could be extremely painful.
Process
| Health fad | Standing desk | lemony water |
| Name, age, gender or photo | Mikael Cho | John taylor |
| Duration of health fad | 2 Tok 3 weeks | 4 too 5 weeks (depends) |
| reason for going on health fad | To get stronger legs | To become skinnier |
| Symtoms | Sore legs and back, painful feet and shoulders collapsing | Yellow teeth, sensitivity, starvation |
| Did the Health Fad achieve what it claimed in any way? | No | No |
| Similar cases |
Evaluation
Some of the health fads in Dr Phils tv show were bed and sun tanning and phentermine. with bed and sun tanning your skin would take in radiation skin damage like from the sun. Phentermine is a pill you would take to help lose weight. It would make you sick with lots of side effects.
The types of people that would get involved in intense tanning would be manly young girls with concerns about there skin colour. The types of people that would get involved with Phentermine is people who would want to lose weight fast and easy.
Some of the side effects to tanning would be intense sun damage to your skin that could cause skin cancer when older. The side effects to Phentermine would be you would act moody, feel dizzy to the part until you pass out, intense stomach pains, no sleep and adiction to the drug.
some interesting facts about sun tanning is that it does help the skin to become a darker colour but fades away. That's why people constantly re dose them self in sun radiation which as you know can cause skin cancer. So in a word it's like an adiction. An interesting fact about Phentermine is that it's purpose is achieved but can cause serious mental damage if takg the drug for too long.
Conclusion
Credits
I have learned alot about health fads on this assignment. Some of the tings I have learned on this assignment is that alot of health fads can actually be vey danerous Like the lemon detox diet. I never new that seting that sounded so harmless could be so dangerous. I think more people should research more into the health fads they want try out. That way less people would get sick from dangerous fads.
Also I didn't know that compaies could be so desperite to sell their health fads. Companies get peoles to try different health fads b gving ot false information. This however could be very dangerous as companies could leave ot e extremly information that could be devistatley dangerous. This could lead to very bad illnesses or death.
I have come up with some strategies t use health fads but with a better result. One way to get a better result is to try reading or researching the health fad moe and to get more clear reveiws. Another way end up with a better result is to add your own healthy twist to a health fad you know is danerous ad turn it into a more safe health fad.