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BEPE 121 – DRUG EDUCATION, CONSUMER HEALTH EDUCATION & HEALTHY EATING
2nd Semester, Academic Year 2023-2024

NAME: ______________________________________________ Score: ___________

Course, Year & Section: _______________________________ Date: ___________

I. FACT OR QUACK: In the spaces provided, write check (✔) if the statement describes
ideas professional health practitioners believe in and a cross (✘) to describe
statements describing fraudulent health products.
1. Data telling that their product is a secret cure or is a first in the country
2. Most drugs are designed only to cure specific diseases
3. Claims that the health product can provide sure treatments for many ailments or
multiple illnesses
4. Promises of quick, painless, or simple treatments
5. Individuals are unique, and what is applicable to someone may not be equally
applicable to all
6. Use of case histories or testimonials to support claims
7. Natural supplements may not be designed to cure certain diseases
8. Reports saying that physicians are no better than natural products
9. Our bodies react differently to pain and illnesses, and it takes some time before
they heal
10. Before any cure is applied, it must first be tested, and it must undergo several
trials
11. Statements that the diseases can be cured by natural supplements
12. Physicians had undergone many series of training and practices before they
became licensed to treat people with illnesses
13. Natural products may have mixtures of some ingredients that may harm the body

II. DEEPEN YOUR UNDERSTANDING: Depend your understanding of consumer health by

reflecting on the answers you have to the following questions below. Limit your
answers to 3-5 sentences.

1. What should be your criteria for buying the food from the school canteen?

2. If your mother would ask you about the food that you would like to have for your
packed lunch, what would you tell your mother? Why?

3. What are your criteria for choosing your personal care?

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4. What are the TV commercials on personal care (shampoo, soap) that you think tell the
truth?

5. Are you persuaded by TV commercials to buy a certain product? Why?

6. What makes you think that a TV commercial is telling the truth?

7. How could you become good in consumer health?

III. ASSIGNMENT: As a class, bring the 10 Medicinal Plants approved by the Department of
Health.
1. Acapulko (Acapulco)
2. Ampalaya (Bitter melon or bitter gourd)
3. Bawang (Garlic)
4. Bayabas (Guava)
5. Lagundi (Five-leaved chaste tree)
6. Niyog-niyogan (Chinese honeysuckle)
7. Sambong (Blumea or Ngai camphor)
8. Tsaang gubat (Wild tea)
9. Ulasimang Bato or Pansit-pansitan (Peperomia pellucida)
10. Yerba Buena (Perppermint)

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