NEWS WHEN YOU NEED IT: Text CHRON to 77453 to receive breaking news alerts by text message | Sign up for breaking news alerts delivered to your email here. Watch fellow Houstonian Enos in 'Hanna' when it debuts March 29 on Amazon Prime Video. It was kind of untouched and great-we would go and hunt for blackberries,' Enos told Houstonia Magazine's Sarah Rufca Nielsen in 2016. 'I lived on a dead-end street next to another dead-end street, and next to my house it was just woods. Harris County law enforcement officers crowd commissioners court, boo Lina Hidalgo over budget battle.Mariners live updates: Houston takes 2-0 lead in ALDS Katy ISD head football coach resigns following allegations of misconduct with student.Carlos Correa interviews Jeremy Peña after Game 2 win over Seattle.Texas oil billionaires invest big in Lina Hidalgo's challenger.Carlos Correa discusses Framber Valdez pep talk on TBS pregame.The ground is sinking fast in some of Houston's richest suburbs.'That Sugar Film: how 60 days of eating 'health food' led to fatty liver disease'. 'Sugar coating complex science, Damon Gameau's 'That Sugar Film' inspires'. 'That Sugar Film review: Powerful propaganda proves little'. 'Review: In 'That Sugar Film,' a Bitter Truth'. ^ a b Engber, Daniel (10 August 2015).The film is recommended as an educational resource by Documentary Australia Foundation, which notes 'THAT SUGAR FILM will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food'. Īn article from SBS Australia discussing the film's legacy describes it as 'One of Australia’s most successful docos'.

However, the content of the article seems rather oriented towards ad-hominem attacks which have little to do with the substance of the subject. The Hollywood Reporter concluded that 'Gameau clearly has good intentions, and generally succeeds in sweetening a potentially bitter subject for easy public consumption.' However, a Slate review insisted 'That Sugar Film is so highly processed, and so laden with chintzy, artificial arguments, that its many weaknesses are hidden from consumers.' Ī local Australian review in The Sydney Morning Herald claimed that the film is 'not rigorous enough to prove anything at all'. 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. According to a review by The New York Times, the 'breezy blend of computer imagery, musical numbers, sketches and offbeat field trips' made 'the nutrition lessons easy to digest'.

Gameau's partner, actress Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, appears in the film while pregnant with their daughter, who makes an appearance after being born during production.Īmerican reviews for the film were generally positive. Kimber Stanhope gave interviews which are included, and Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Florence and the Machine feature on the soundtrack. In addition to Gameau in the lead, the cast includes Hugh Jackman, Stephen Fry, Isabel Lucas, and Brenton Thwaites. Adding more sugar beyond the 'bliss point' leads to a significant drop in desirability.įollowing the experiment, he returned to his previous diet, and the ill effects were largely and quickly reversed. The viewers are introduced to the ' bliss point', a term coined in the 1960s which applies here to the amount of sugar you can add to a food to make it optimally desirable. It is suggested that artificial sweeteners may be no better. Interviews with experts attribute this change to the high level of sugar he was ingesting, and in particular suggest that fructose may be the main culprit. The sugar diet was selected such that his calorie intake was not increased from his normal diet. As a result, Gameau gained weight, grew lethargic, and developed fatty liver disease. 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 high in sugar, equivalent to 160 grams (40 tsp) of sugar per day.

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