This document discusses the topic of health quackery. It defines quackery as the promotion or sale of medical products or services that have not been proven safe or effective. It identifies three major characteristics of health quackery: it is a big business, it spreads fast, and preys on people with illnesses that have no known cure. The document outlines three forms of quackery: medical quackery involving alternative treatments, nutrition quackery involving food fads, and device quackery using gadgets to treat health conditions. It asks the reader to consider why people fall for quackery and assigns making a poster on this topic.

1. GOOD
MORNING!!!!

2. STUDY THE
PICTURE/POST
ER BELOW.
1. Where do you often see
these kinds of posters?
2. What message do these
posters want to convey?
3. What is being sold in the
poster?
4. On this product, what does
it guarantee?
5. Why do you want to buy the
product?

3. STUDY THE
PICTURE/POST
ER BELOW.
6. What is your reason for
declining the product?

4. QUACKERY: TYPES (MEDICAL, NUTRITION, DEVICE)
AND HARMFUL PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
EFFECTS

5. QUACKERY
fraud, is any advertisement,
promotion, or sale of products
and services that have not been
scientifically proven safe and
effective .
•It is being operated by a quack.
• A quack is an individual that has
little or no professional
qualifications to practice
medicine. He/She also
pretentiously uses meaningless
medical jargon and relies on scare
tactics, paranoid accusations, and

6. THREE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS
OF HEALTH QUACKERY
FIRST
it is a big
business.
SECOND
it multiplies
and spreads
fast.
THIRD
it thrives on
individuals who are
diagnosed with
illnesses that are
known to have no
cure.

8. 3 FORMS OF
QUACKERY

9. MEDICAL
QUACKERY •Medical quackery
includes cures,
treatments, and
remedies of various
health conditions
that are drugless or
bloodless in nature.

10. N
QUACKER
Y
Nutrition quackery
involves promotion of
food fads and other
nutritional practices that
claim to be all-natural.
These are believed to
have beneficial
properties of multiple
plants in one product.

11. DEVICE
QUACKER
Y
Device quackery
makes use of
miraculous gadgets
(such as dials, gauges,
electrodes, magnets,
and blinkers) that are
believed to cure
certain health
conditions.

12. EVALUATION
•Use activity 13 on LM. P. 218. Afterwards, elaborate on the possible causes of quackery.
WHY DO
PEOPLE FROM
QUACKERY
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13. ASSIGNMENT
•Poster Making that show on why
the people fall from quackery?

14. THANK YOU!!!!!!