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Good start, but then it gets ruined

Awesome Movie

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

It is simply impossible for the filmmaker (Garmeau) to consume the same amount of calories (2,300) as he did before the start of the experiment and gain 15-20 lbs in just 60 days. This undercuts one of his central claims that not all calories are the same. Using the filmmaker's weight gain as proof, the film wants to assert that calories from sugar are more likely to cause obesity than calories from other sources. Unfortunately, the numbers do not add up and such sloppy mistakes are typical of people who consider themselves more progressive than others.He and almost everyone else involved in this project tries hard to be cute. The effort they put into acting like innocent but superior bunnies who happen to know something that should change the way everyone lives is simply annoying. The subject matter is serious because obesity is an epidemic that maims and kills. Instead of being rigorous and backing up what he says with solid evidence he decided to be cute. You might say he decided to be cute because he simply does not know how to methodically investigate anything.You will not learn much from this documentary. It is for most part an exercise in self indulgence. The guy wants to make a documentary on sugar consumption and he does not even take the trouble to read up on fructolysis.Skip this. It is not worth your time.

In this documentary, film-maker Damon Gameau becomes his own guinea pig and spends 60 days eating healthy foods with added sugar. Before this process, he had eradicated sugar from his diet so the contrast is even more pronounced. Over the course of the 60 days he puts on considerable weight, experiences mood swings and notices a drop in overall motivation.What I found so alarming about this film was that it didn't play things easy and simply expose the dangers of excessive sugar intake. Gameau doesn't consume any junk food whatsoever, such as fizzy juice, sweets or ice cream, he instead purely sticks to food marketed as healthy. It's this more than anything that sets off alarm bells because this route seems to most people a route to weight loss and improved physical well-being, yet as the film demonstrates it actually leads to obesity and mental damage. Time and again we are shown the volumes of sugar that is hidden in so-called 'healthy' foods and it makes you pause for thought. What comes out loud and clear is that sugar is clearly a socially acceptable form of addiction and the sugar industry have been instrumental in minimising public information on the dangers their product presents. It's very interesting to note that over the course of his 60 day experiment Gameau eats no more calories than he did previously, yet he puts on almost a stone in weight. One of the key lessons, therefore, is that there are calories and there are calories, i.e. sugar calories affect the body decidedly differently to the way protein and carb ones do.The approach taken by the film is very much of the fun and informative variety. Sometimes the humour doesn't work so well but in the main this approach is good in that it is very accessible. After all, this is a film that you would want children to watch and learn from. There are a couple of star cameos with Hugh Jackman giving us a brief history lesson about man's relationship with sugar and Stephen Fry pops up to explain some of the science behind it. On the whole, I found this to be an excellent wake-up call about a subject I had hitherto given minimal thought to. There is a lot of very valuable information in this film that could be genuinely life changing if applied to your day to day life, and I reckon that is as good a recommendation as anyone could need.

nothing mind-blowing. but that does not mean that they are unimportant.the film will again make you remember about the dangerous food labyrinth that we are in. really a responsible attempt for our kids. it will tell you how omnipresent the sugar is. it's almost every where.the bottom lime is: AVOID PROCESSED / PACKAGED FOOD & DRINKS. EAT AS NATURE GIVES US.eat a fruit in it's original shape, not just the juice. Why? because it's harmful. avoid so-called health food / drinks : they all contain harmful quantity of sugar... ........good and praiseworthy attempt. hope, i'll remember them when someone offers me a coke.

If you enjoy seeing black people portrayed in the most paternalistic, belittling way possible, while all the while some white presenter adopts a cares so much more than you shtick as so sad piano music plays in the back ground, then this is the film for you! If though, you wretch at the idea of this, then this divergence the film takes midway as the presenter visits an Aboriginal community will sour you on the whole production.To present Aboriginal people as so pathetic as to be incapable of understanding that a high sugar diet presents disastrous health effects without Big Gov funded intervention is nothing but the contemptible racism of lower expectations. The fact of the matter is that all people know what is good food and what is bad. They just choose the bad a lot of the time. And that's people for you.The movie Fat Head, another doc on high carb consumption and its effects on health combats the racism of That Sugar Film, and is to be commended here.On the info? Some of it is good. But not all. It becomes very melodramatic and ventures into Super Size Me territory with is fantastic weight gain by the presenter, so much so that one is left to question the honesty of food/macro intake. To use again the film Fat Head for comparison, in which Tom Naughton eats nothing but fast food for a number of weeks while keeping his carb intake to 100g (25 tsp sugar) a day and as a result loses weight and improves health markers. The presenter here, eating just 15 teaspoons (60g) more of sugar a day, piles on the weight? Talk about things that make you go Hmmmm! Too mate, the apple you hold up as a perfect representation of Mother Nature, is actually a perfect representation of man designed produce. No wild apple looks like that. What you hold is something that has been carefully bred and crafted for years and years. So that now we have something that tastes sweet and is good for us. Though the presenter's predilection for idealizing nature at the expense of a more honest appraisal of reality is to be noted as such crops again and again throughout.Would all of us do better eating less sugar? Undoubtedly. Does this film with its racism, hysteria and dubious integrity on the part of the presenter and his weight gain help in this more than it hinders? Yes, but not by much. Those interested in the topic are encouraged to give Fat Head a view. You will laugh and leave far better informed. Too, not once will you see a black person portrayed as of inferior intellectual capacity to a white person, so an added bonus there!Update: taking the recommendation of another reviewer in this thread I took a look at the BBC Horizon Doc Sugar V Fat (watch 4 free on dailymotion). After viewing I take back my allegation of less than forthright behavior on the part of the presenter when it comes to cals and weight gain. Why? Simply in the horizon doc, 1 of the twins after going on a high fat very low carb diet for a month experiences horrendous blood glucose functioning when tested on this at the end of the diet. Thus, if the presenter came from a similar position but one of years, not a month, it is perfectly conceivable that even on a mild carb intake they would be hopeless and experience weight gain plus a whole host of other adverse side effects. Is this an indictment of high carb diets though? Or is it a slam on high fat low carb diets and how they ruin your ability to process carbs properly? The latter in my book. All other critiques stand. To the reviewer who recommended Sugar V Fat, thank you very much.