Suitable for all the family, That Sugar Film is compulsory viewing for anyone who has children or anything else to live for.
Note: The R rating is for relatively inconsequential reasons. Algenis Perez Soto plays the character so openly, so naturally, that an interesting thing happens: Baseball is only the backdrop, not the subject. With great songs and great graphics this film is truly sickening, albeit with an upbeat ending. For them this film is a chapter in the more interesting story of the lifetime Sugar has ahead of him. He is the canary in the coalmine and we must give thanks for the warning. In the vein of 'Supersize Me', Damon Gameau becomes a human guinea-pig when he puts himself through a grueling 6 week diet consuming the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. The film follows Gameau's experiment on himself, changing from his normal diet containing no refined sugar, to a 'health-conscious' diet low in fat but. The film looks at hidden sugar in foods and the effect it can have on the human body. Dominican baseball star Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. That Sugar Film is a 2014 Australian documentary starring and directed by Damon Gameau. With Jose Rijo, Walki Cuevas, Algenis Perez Soto, Santo Silvestre.
The film also stirs the pot about obesity, behavioural problems in children, and even rocks the foundations of consumerism. Sugar: Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films-the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to. What Gameau reveals about the fructose-laden fare cynically marketed to us at the cost of our health is nothing less than shocking. With food corporations more in denial than the tobacco industry, tell-tale signs are products marked 'lo-fat' or '100% natural'. Hugh Jackman's sand paintings of the history of sugar is the first of many bite-sized pleasures that make up this rollicking journey of discovery that is guaranteed to disturb your eating habits. That Sugar Film (2,788) 1 h PG-13 Damon Gameau embarks on an experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body. Here, Gameau puts his body on the line to look behind the health claims of fruit juice, flavoured yoghurt, muesli bars, breakfast cereal and more a diet only of food marketed as healthy and natural but brimming with heaped spoonfuls of unwanted sugar. Gameau follows in the footsteps of Morgan Spurlock's gonzo doco, Supersize Me, where Spurlock offered himself as a guinea pig to look at a diet of Maccas. He packages it in a palatable, family-friendly form, the perfect counter-punch to the food industry's current marketing of sugar. This journey is the central premise for the documentary 2040, a story of. Damon Gameau's playful exploration of this crucially important subject is a big wake-up. journey began with award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film). Lustig at the University of California, whose youtube lecture went viral. Warning bells were sounded in 2009 by childhood obesity expert Prof Robert H. There are links between this new diet and obesity and mental illness.
There is increasingly awareness that we live in the age of sugar with the population of our planet suddenly consuming massively more sugar. They’ll go a long way in keeping you motivated to (finally!) kick that sugar habit to the curb.That Sugar Film is one man's journey into the effect of eating the sugar that is hidden in food marketed as healthy. If you’re looking to enlighten yourself on the sinister dangers of sugar, these are the 6 brutally honest, must-see documentaries to watch. Perhaps it’s also the fact that we’re all a little fuzzy and unaware of how poisonous sugar is to our body – in the same way we view other vices like cigarettes or alcohol. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of. It’s been linked to an increased risk of dying with heart disease (even if you’re not overweight), cancer, and a host of other diseases.īecause it’s so addictive, it is also one of the hardest things to cut out from our diet. One mans journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. What effect is it having on our minds and bodies THAT SUGAR FILM is one mans journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. The bad news is that sugar is a silent killer. They are joined by the writer Emily Rapp Black, who decided to have another child after learning that her son had a fatal congenital disorder. In Part 2, they read letters from parents who worry that their grief may overshadow their surviving children.
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It’s integral to our morning cup of kopi, made its way to most of our favourite savoury hawker dishes, and hidden in so many of the foods we consume daily (even the most seemingly sugar-free and deceptively ‘healthy’ ones). The Sugars conclude a two-part series on early childhood death.