Look to social media for a recent health claim (diet, exercise activity, supplement etc.) that is being promoted to the public as being beneficial to their health and provide a link to the media site that describes the health claim. After you give a description of the claim please apply the “The Risk of Deception” tool to this health claim and report all your ratings and final score. Please provide a scoring and rationale for each item of the Risk of Deception Tool in your initial post.
Example only:
Authority: 0
Scarcity: 2
Liking or similarity: 2
Reciprocation:Effects claims: 2
Pseudo-technical language: 0
Pseudoscience: 2
Evidence of efficacy level: 3
Total Score: 11 (high risk to deception)
Please search CINAHL, PubMed, or any other academic electronic database to find peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support the health claim and reference the claim and evidence found using APA format.