Introduction
| Health fad: | definition: |
| Bee venom | Applying bee venom on surfaces of the body and it can cure many diseases even breast cancer. |
| ear candelling | A long hollow candel coated with wax is put into your ear and lit to create a vacuum, to suck out all the toxins. |
| Foot baths | you put your feet into saltwater tubs and put a mouse on your feet and it's meant to clean your body intirely. |
| Mesotherpy | Women took many injections such as pharmaceutical and homeopathic products to relief pain and be happy. |
| Q-ray braclets | Q-ray braclets are meant to help with balance and fitness and stability. |
Task
bee venom: Bee venom is being promoted on the interent and through magazines sites, such as dailymail.com. the daily mail site talks about the bee venom cream, which is the same but the bee isnt bighting you on your bare skin and its not put into a cream. I believe that this fad could be used because it is sold in the cremes so its not as painful as a bee bighting your bare skin, and it is also meant to make your skin smooth and cure diseases even breats cancer. I also have second thoughts about it because the proper bee venom fad is where the bee actually bights your bare skin and the bee can have bacteria on it and its un healthy for yor skin and it can make you have harsh rashes. If i had to try any of the three health das that i picked it would most likely be the Q-ray braclet because its actually not eating anthing or injecting anything into your skin and all it is wearing a braclet and its menat to help you with your balance. The one i would never try would have to be bee venom beause it would hurt and they can have really bad bacteria and your just puting that into your body. If its done by a professinal its not as bad beace they will use it for right things. the side affetcs to this therapy are itching, anxiety, trouble breathing, chest tightness, heart palpitations, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sleepliness, confusion, fainting, and lastly low blood pressure.
ear candelling: Its promoted by adds and inernet sites. I think that the ear candelling method would be useful because it is meant to clear out all the toxins and its meant to be very healthy and help your skin inside and out. I do believe that is would be unsucseful though because the candle wax melts after a certain time and it can burn your ear and it can damadge your hearing. The side effects of ear candelling are blockage in the ear canal with candle wax, temporary hearing loss or permanent, external ear infection and ear drum punture. Do not use ear candling if you are pregnant or you have a ruptured ear drum.
Q-ray braclet: The Q-ray braclet is promoted by internet adds and sites. I believe that this method would be succsesful because it does not include anything like injections or eating anything that may harm you, and its meant to help you balance which is good. I all so doubt that ths method with work beause its like me just wearing a normal braclet and they dont help me balance so it would be good to look more into it to find out what made it help you balance. There arent any side effects to uing the Q-ray braclet as it is just wearing a braclet that is meant to help you balance.
Process
| Health fad: | the cigarette diet (Pipe, cigar and cigarette) |
| person, age, gender, photo? | Albert Einstein, 76
1879–1955, male, |
| Duration of health fad? | Albert was smoking from his early 20 to the days he became sick and passed away. |
| Reason going on health fad? | He thought smoking pipe was a somewhat relaxing and calm method to help him sleep and relief pain and unhappiness. |
| Symptoms? | Coughing, lung cancer, damaged muscles and damaged immune system. |
| did the health fad achieve what it claimed in any way? |
If you are aiming for the skinny side of it yes it does work but it can give you lung cancer which can kill you. |
| health fad | tapeworm diet |
| name,age,gender,photo? | name: Unknown but she was fed them to be skinnier for a beauty pageant. I could not find her age but she looked about 15 and she is a girl. |
| Duration of health fad: | they were put into her dinner by her mother and she was complaining that she had pains and that she was hungry so they went to the hospital and she went to the bathroom and screamed as she was standing over a toilet full of tapeworms. |
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Syptoms: |
Pains in stomach and she was hungry as the tapeworms were eating all her food so that they would grow. |
| Did the health fad achieve what it claimed in anyway? |
she lost a few pounds because when they got them out they were nearly full grown. |
Evaluation
Worksheet 4
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MINI REPORT
Complete a mini report that presents information you have gathered from watching Dangerous Fads (Dr Phil).
The report must include the following information and be presented in an easy-to-read and interesting way:
Types of Fads in the tv show – including details of each
tanning bed - they tan and it ruins there skin but they say they get happier and they tan 5-6 times a day.
Fitter mean - pill that helps you loose weight and gives you energy. But she did not get told the side effects and she would feel nautilus and get cranky and moody a lot.
Types of people who normally are involved in these fads and reasons why they want to do these fads
tanning - adults maybe 20 - 40
Fitter mean - adults, ladies
Side effects
tanning - terrible skin and can get skin cancer
Fitter mean - cranky and moody and nautious a lot, headaches, dizziness, depression and not being able to sleep.
Research information on the fads from the show to find more interesting facts to include in your mini report
A doctor in Alabama aged 26 layer in the sun or tanning beds from her early teens. She was first diagnosed with skin cancer at the age of 21 and has had 6 treatments on it and it still is terrible she posted a photo on Facebook that has now gone viral to spread awareness about the sun and tanning beds.
Conclusion
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Conclusion:
I believe if I had to make up a health fad it would be selling meausred frozoen meals and eating them because it as all the measurements and calories etc on the packaging so you knoww what your eating and how much. my mum has bought these before and they helped her loose weight and become more healthier, so i know that they work and then if you dont feel like a big meal you can have fruit or a salad etc.
in conclusion what i have learnt in the past term of HPE is that there are dangerous health fads out there that can hurt you or make you very sick like the tapeworm diet. i would never try many of the health fads but one i would try would be the gluten free diet because it is meant to clear up your skin alot and help you loose weight naturally because you stomach isnt full of wheat and gluten.
The reson these health fads are getting buyers is because they are claiming alot of things like its not bad for you, its cheap, and it will make you skinny and things like that to make them look good so people try them, I all so think the reson why famous people try them is because they want the media and they want to be reconised.