Introduction
| Health fad | details. |
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Tapeworm diet |
This health fad about the tapeworm diet it involves intentionally infecting yourself with tapeworms. It supposed to help you loose weight |
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Hollywood diet |
Starve yourself so you can loose weight |
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The atkins diet |
Low carbohydrat diet. Led by Robet Atkins |
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Paeleo diet |
when you completly cut out sugar |
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ear candeling |
a candel is put in your ear and is lit at the other end and is suppo to clear your ear of impurities becauseof the slight vacuum caused by the smoke. |
Task
| Health fad | Mode of advertisement or origins |
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Hollywood diet |
The hollywood diet was ans is advertised by internet and website |
| Ear candeling | ear candeling advocates say that the treatment originated in chinese, greek ,Egyptian, and North America medicines. |
| Paeloe diet | This diet is used by Pete Evens. So its advertised by him,there are countless websites and recipe book that you can find all over the place. |
Process
| Health fad | tapeworm diet |
| Person | un named, female, age unannounced |
| Duration of health fad | 1-2 weeks |
| Reasons for going on health fad | loosing weight |
| Sypmtoms | throwing up, nasua, ext |
| Did the health fad acheived what it claimed | yes but as soon as you took the medicine to kill the tape worm you gained the weight again |
| Details of simalr cases | a mother, un named, spiked her daughters food with tapeworm pills and soon the young daughter had agonising stomach pain and had constant diarrhoea. |
| Health fad | sun eating |
| Person | Un named |
| Duration of health fad | 1 year |
| Symptoms | Starvation, unhealthy weight loss |
| Did the health achieve what it claimed | Yes but only because they were starving themselves |
| Resons for going on health fad |
To loose weight |
| Details of similar cases | Australian, Verity Linn, 27 years old, died after 21 days |
Evaluation
1) the types of health fads on the Dr. Phil tv-show included, the tanning bed and slimming tablets called phentermine.
The tanning bed would develop UV rays and send them to the skin. Such high concentrations of UV rays can be dangerous and cause skin cancer. The slimming tablet causes anger, depression, irritation, nausea, sickness, and loss of sleep.
2) the types of people who are normally involved in these kinds of fads for the tanning bed are usually women who think they aren't tan enough and slimming tablets are usually used by people who want to loose weight that don't want to exercise or people who struggle with excess weight.
3) Side effects of the tanning bed include skin cancer, ultra violet ray damages and uv ray damages, melanoma. The side effects of the slimming pill include irritation, nausea, mood swings, and speeding up of the heart rate and constant sickness.
4) there have been no clinical testings on the slimming pill phentermine since it was released and approved, its a stimulant so it can be addicting and it can can also impair thinking or alertness.
Tanning beds can cause eye blinding diseases if eye protection is not worn. They show the higgest risk of leaving you with skin cancer. And for some people the Uv rays o the tanning bed can have a drug like affect and can be addictive
Conclusion
Credits
what I have learned from these previous tasks isthat every thing doesn't work even if celebrities say they do. If theyu do some of of them come with risks and are not permanant.
Some ways that companies will premote their health fads are through celebrities, websites or sometimes even posters.
I believe a great way to have healthy food and for it to work over a periode of time is that you try to get foods with a lower level of sugar, dont exessivly eat, ( meaning dont eat over the amount your supposed to), drink plenty of water instead of soft drinks, exersise and try and take the healthier option if possible.