What can you learn from this 5-minute video?
Do you follow any health or wellness influencers? Have you ever taken any of their advice? What happened?
How do you decide whom to trust and which advice to follow?
Watch the five-minute video above and write down three things you learned that you might want to keep in mind next time you come across health or wellness information on the internet.
Then, share your notes with others in your class. How many of you wrote down similar facts or pieces of advice?
Finally, discuss: What would you ideally like any piece of health or wellness advice — whether in print, on social media, or from a friend or relative — to include that would help reassure you it is reliable?
If you’d like to go further:
Apply what you learned! Identify one example of fake or unreliable health or wellness advice from your social media or news feed. What made you suspicious? Where can you find more reliable information about this same topic?
