Health Fads

Introduction

Health fad: 

                                     

Details: 

                                      
Beevenom

Therapists apply bee venom to parts of the body. The natural sting of the bee was believed to cure a variety of diseases.                                     
Ear candling A long hollow tapering cone of muslin coated with wax is inserted into the ear and lit to create a vacuum. It is known to cure hearing problems, headaches, migrains, sinusitis, rhinitis, and hay fever.
Tapeworm

Tapeworm diet pills were created in the early part of the 20th century. It involved swallowing beef tapeworm eggs and then taking a medicine to kill the tapeworm after reaching your target weight.
Green drinks A green drink containing just vegies will be low in calories and high in important vitamins and minerals, therefore is healthy and help loose weight faster.
Going Gluten-free

As well, those who go gluten-free often don't realize gluten-free foods are full of other unhealthy ingredients.

Task

1. Beevenom is promoted on tv shows as surgeries. Also online and in magazines as a lot of celebrities get beevenom facials.

Ear candling can be marketed in brooches for days spa's and a lot on videos online.

Green drinks are found on diet websites or dietrest may tell you about them. Also common to be found in magazines for grocery stores.

2. Green tea, green juice, green smoothies—if it's green and liquid, someone trendy's bound to be drinking it. And even if you couldn't possibly have less interest in being trendy, your health can benefit from these nutrition-packed concoctions.

3. Promoting/marketing these fads can be succesful because they can become a know fad and make money.

4. Promoting/marketing these fads can be unsuccesful because you could have reactions or they could be unhealthy.

5. If i had to choose one of these fads to try it would be the green drinks because I know that they are deffinatly healthy and nothing could really go wrong.

6. The least I would like to try is the beevenom because it does not show safe.

7. The negitive side effects for the beevenom is if you are allergic to bees and don't know your face could swell up and be in a lot of pain. 

The negitive side effects for the ear candling is that the wax could be too hot and burn your eardrum.

The negitive side effects for the Green drinks is that they could possibly be doing no good for your body and health.

Process

Diet pills Fad.

Two weeks ago, 21-year-old student Eloise Aimee Parry died after taking diet pills she’d bought online. 

Eloise had bought slimming tablets on the internet. She had taken even more of these 'slimming tablets' than recommended on the pack and had no idea just how dangerous they really were.

She never intended to take her own life. She just never really understood how dangerous the tablets that she took were. Most people don't believe that a slimming tablet could possibly cause death.

The cause of Eloise’s death will be confirmed but police are investigating where she bought the pills, and that they cost around $70 for 100 capsules.

The drug is a fat burner, and works by accelerating the metabolism to a dangerously fast level. It can cause many symtoms such as fever, dehydration, nausea, vomiting, restlessness, flushed skin, excessive sweating, dizziness, abnormally fast heart beat, rapid breathing and death which sadly had happened to Eloise.

The health Fad did achieve the slimming but not in anyway the way that people take them for.

Some other similar cases:

Sarah Houston died after taking a combination of DNP (bought online).

Eighteen-year-old student, Sarmad Alladin died after taking a combination of antidepressants and DNP, which he had bought online aswell.

18-year-old rugby player Chris Mapletoft died after taking a combination of DNP (bought online).

Evaluation

The Doctor Phill show inculded two types of Fads. The tanning/tanning beds Fad and the diet pill Fad.

The Tanning Fad is about Tannning in the Sun for a trend. The Trend becomes popular and soon enough the beach is covered in people tanning. In our days now people use Tanning beds which are just as bad and don't do any good for you. Tanning beds are just an indoor way to Tan. This is a terrible Fad because Tanning leads to premature aging (wrinkles), eye damage, and skin cancer.

Types of people that Tan or use Tanning beds are people that think being Tan is attractive and don't care about the danger it does for their skin.

The other Fad Dr Phil talked about was the diet pill Fad. Diet pills are a way that people who have no energy to lose weight take because they do all the work for you. The cause a major mood change and make you feel norcious to thre point where you are about to faint. They also create a whole lot of unwanted, unhealthy side effects like heart palpitations, addiction, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, insomnia, anxiety and depression.

Types of people that do the diet pill Fad are peopel who have no energy to get out and lose weight so they need the pill or people that are followers and see heaps or other people on the pill so they take it but don't know what they are getting themselves into.

Conclusion