The simple message of the film is that if you can eat real foods as much as possible, you're going to be fine, we just sort of say do whatever you can. If you still have to take your family to Taco Bell, then at least choose water instead of the soft drinks for now. And just try and have as much real food as you can because your body knows how to deal with that.

Damon Gameau

Categorized in : Health

People need to look out for all of these health slogans on the labels that they use to make it look very healthy. You see these health slogans like ‘Packed with essential Vitamin D,’ and parents believe that, there are also a hundred alternative names like evaporated cane juice and grape mist—again all of it confuses the consumer.

This term about grams of sugar is so ambiguous. We try converting it into teaspoons so that people can really understand and see what a teaspoon is. So if you see on the back of a juice 20 grams [of sugar], divide that by four, and you know there's 5 teaspoons of sugar in that juice packet, and you'd never put 5 teaspoons in your cup of tea for your child, yet you'd give it in a juice quite easily. So people need to know that.

Not many people realize just how pervasive sugar is in the food supply. It's now found in about 75 percent of the foods we eat.

After twelve days I had put on about 5 pounds, and then after 18 days I had started to develop fatty liver disease. And this is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease because it didn't exist nearly 35 years ago, and it's now found in nearly one in three Americans.

The film is all about the hidden sugars. One tablespoon of barbeque sauce has 2 teaspoons of sugar in it. Things like ketchup have a teaspoon of sugar in 1 tablespoon. Low-fat mayonnaises, pasta sauces are [all] full of sugar, and they’re things that people would never consider.

They [calories] are the same on the plate, but once they enter the body they behave very differently metabolically, and trigger different hormones that affect appetite and all sorts of things. And that certainly happened to me.

Their sugar levels are astronomical, it can't go on because they are going to die out and they are the oldest culture in the world.

It especially made me think of kids who are having breakfast in the morning, their blood sugars are just going up and down like a yo-yo.

I think you can’t not be shocked by learning the average Australian consumes 40 spoonfuls of sugar per day.