![]() Another such example being the aims of the filmmaker to action change beyond the film in school canteens and the Aboriginal community of Amata, where government cuts have meant children’s sugar-intake has increased.Īnd what of other crusaders? What of Jamie Oliver’s proposed sugar-tax? He’s implementing it in his own restaurants. He is most concerned with the children of tomorrow. While he looks at the health of some of his contemporaries. The balance of sugar for children is at the front of Gameau’s mind for most of the film, as he explores the effects of his diet in the lead up to the birth of his first child. My first taste of sugar was delivered in the form of a Tiny Teddy from my grandmother. But then again you can never tell what sugary treat may be round the corner when a parent turns their back. For what they don’t know, they won’t miss. Davina McCall’s five week plan to a sugar free diet could be condensed to a five second plan where you never feed your baby sugar. Sarah Wilson’s book could be condensed to a pamphlet that says don’t feed babies sugar. ![]() Listening to Hamish Blake talking about his son’s first experience with sugar it became clear that perhaps the perfect answer to a sugar-free future is never having it in the first place. So if we don’t coat our broccoli in chocolate sauce and poach our asparagus in sugar syrup, how will our children eat? They will go hungry and die of starvation (mind you, seeing the speed at which Gameau’s stomach bloats in the first few days of his sugar diet, you’d be loath to feed your child half an Uncle Toby’s muesli bar). These are the things filling our children’s cereal bowls, lunch boxes and dinner plates.īut what to do Mr Gameau? What to do? Our children are already addicted. Perhaps this is even worse than Coca-Cola or McDonalds, because these other items come with a health message. It turns out all of these products are high in sugar-content also. Things like zero-per-cent fat milk, one-hundred-per-cent fruit juices, health bars, Nutri-grain, and so forth, are all in the firing line. He brings to the fore all those products we thought were good for us. To the average person it is common knowledge that substituting your children’s drinking water with sugar-loaded beverages will have lasting health effects. This has direct echoes of the headline grabbing efforts of Morgan Spurlock bingeing on MacDonalds in Super Size Me or the time that Werner Herzog ate his shoe in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.īut it is not really the masochistic element of the film that hits home. Gameau also goes for the immersive documentarian stunt of subjecting himself to a sugar-filled diet for sixty days. Jamie Oliver for one recently upped the ante, on Gameau’s ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’ footage, by sitting in on a foot amputation caused by type two diabetes and screening footage of mothers bottle feeding their babies Coca-Cola. Other sugar-free crusaders have been slowly adding to the pile of evidence pointing towards the heinous crimes of this carbohydrate. ![]() ![]() Images like the one above certainly add the shock value to this documentary. In a relieving piece of news, available on Facebook, he has now had all his teeth replaced. Larry’s teeth are not replaced by the end of the documentary though, because his system would not respond properly to the anaesthetic required. In the film Dr Smith points out that he’s seen so many teeth rotted by Mountain Dew that he’s coined the term ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’. He drank too much Mountain Dew.Ī problem not uncommon, according to dentist Dr Edwin Smith, who appears in Damon Gameau’s documentary That Sugar Film. Well they did belong to Larry until they were all pulled out. The teeth in the picture above belong to teenager Larry from Barbourville, Kentucky. ![]()
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