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FILM SUMMARY Close your eyes and imagine sugar. What comes to mind? Chocolate, jelly beans, cotton candy, cakes, and ice cream. The usual culprits. What about fruit smoothies, baked beans, granola, apple juice? Sugar lurks everywhere in our modern culture. Australian actor and first-time feature documentary director Damon Gameau
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THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’.
Jul 31, 2015 · Brit wit Stephen Fry elucidates the difference between glucose, lactose, sucrose and fructose in rhyme. An unbilled Hugh Jackman does some hocus pocus with visual aids concocted with sugar granules on a lit-up podium to illustrate the history of the substance.
- Gameau, wanting to find out effects on brain, goes to Oregon Research Institute
- ß a volatile combination
- Most Enlightening to him
- Gameau’s Parting Advice:
Grp. of scientists there perform FMRI on him Images of Gameau drinking milk shake Photos of his brain show release of dopamine this is result of evolution; when sweets were rare, brain saw it & said, “Get that!” next, opioids (beta-‐Endorphins) released subject feels terrific ( same areas of the bra...
o Eric Stice, one of the Oregon scientists (appearing on 1st a donut box, then a soda bottle) Emerging findings: The more you eat high-‐sugar foods, the more you desire high-‐sugar foods Rats in studies work harder for sugar than for cocaine In boardrooms of food giants, the word addiction is a “dir...
Calorie intake was the same; big difference bet. healthy fats & processed sugar It’s not the calories, it’s the source of the calories
Once fructose removed from diet, your body’s natural appetite suppressants work again In supermarkets, turn right or left; avoid the middle bc of processed foods Fatty liver can be reversed If we educate today’s children, perhaps they can avoid making the same mistakes we made. Refined sugar: Once you...
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This document provides a review and analysis of the documentary film "That Sugar Film". It summarizes that the film follows actor Damon Gameau as he consumes the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar per day for 60 days to show the health effects of a high sugar diet.
A film guide that looks at That Sugar Film (2014), a documentary in which a concerned filmmaker conducts an experiment on himself to understand the unhealthy effects of a high sugar diet.
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Jul 14, 2015 · Film Review: ‘That Sugar Film’ Multihyphenate Damon Gameau becomes a human lab rat in this peppy and informative documentary about the hazards of excessive sugar consumption.
