Fad Diets

https://www.cookinglight.com/healthy-living/weight-loss/worst-fad-diets

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Quick Start

• What things are in the Master Cleanse drink?
• What is the main thing that discredits the alkaline diet?
• Which diet involves swallowing a parasite?
• Who founded the Flecherizing diet?
• Who created the baby food diet?

Vocabulary Check

• rooted out as the false prophets they are
• attained the title of
• shun all solid foods
• requires eating a plethora of foods
• a parasite
• committing at least an hour to masticating

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Individual Thinking

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Is this a formal or informal piece of writing? Find evidence to support your answer.

Partnered Talk

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‘You eat the cabbage soup until you are miserable and skinny’

Why might this make you miserable?

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Individual Thinking

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Why might someone find it hard to follow the Flecherizing Diet? Come up with as many reasons as you can.

Partnered Talk

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The article makes reference to ‘being embarrassed at work’ if you were following one of these diets.

Which of these diets do you think it would be embarrassing to follow in public and why?

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Individual Thinking

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People buy their tapeworms from illegal black markets.

Why might you not be able to just buy a tapeworm anywhere? Use evidence from the text and your own applied knowledge.

Solo Work

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Rank the fad diets in order from what you perceive would be the most effective diet to the least effective diet. Be ready to explain your ranked list.

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