Fed up (Documentary; 2014)
I swear that you would not look at a soda drink can the same way after watching this documentary. In the seventies and eighties, having an unusually oversized student in a class was a rare occurrence. Conversely, in the 21st century, it is rare to see a non obese child in class. This subsequently have led to an epidemic of diseases which were only heard in the older adults and for the first time in human history the offspring may die before their parents!
Even though inactivity has been made the bogeyman for this worrying trend, the consensus now that it is our diet, specifically sugar is the main culprit.
There was a time before the Western world discovered the natives of the Caribbean Islands using extracts from a plant to sweet their beverages, food were grown and were healthy. Sugar was a luxury item that only the bourgeoise could savour.
In the seventies, there was a frenzy to reduce our dietary fat intake. That started the chase to reduce fat content of our food. Reduction of fat made our food unpalatable. In order to make it edible, sugar was added. What's more when corn syrup was discovered and the US government began subsidising the corn farmers to increase production.
The school lunch program also was run by big corporations which promoted fast food.
The skimmed milk production produced lots of fat which were cleverly used to make cheese. Suddenly cheese was the latest additive to all food, fast food included. School lunches were laden with cheese. Soda drinks started flooding schools.
Sugar has been to have shown to have the same effect on our brain as cocaine. PET scans has shown our brain to light up like a Christmas tree after an ingestion of sugar laden beverage very much like a shot of cocaine! And its equally addictive.
TV advertisements directed at the younger generation had ignited the desire to consume and indulge incessantly.
When the government cuts in to put things in order, the big corporations steam rolled in to put their brakes, essentially holding the country at ransom. They started accusing them of being a nanny state. The public is asked to demand for their rights to eat and do what they want. They called it a human rights.
In other words, sugar in the 21st century is want the tobacco companies were doing in the 70s. The cigarette companies then categorically denied that cigarettes caused cancer and were promoting smoking as a hyped and cultured thing to do. What sugar is actually doing is leaving a nation full of fatties with diabetes, stroke and needing bariatric surgery at a tender age.
Even when the brain knows the theory, the mind is just too numbed by the lure of the media and its power of persuasion.
I swear that you would not look at a soda drink can the same way after watching this documentary. In the seventies and eighties, having an unusually oversized student in a class was a rare occurrence. Conversely, in the 21st century, it is rare to see a non obese child in class. This subsequently have led to an epidemic of diseases which were only heard in the older adults and for the first time in human history the offspring may die before their parents!Even though inactivity has been made the bogeyman for this worrying trend, the consensus now that it is our diet, specifically sugar is the main culprit.
There was a time before the Western world discovered the natives of the Caribbean Islands using extracts from a plant to sweet their beverages, food were grown and were healthy. Sugar was a luxury item that only the bourgeoise could savour.
In the seventies, there was a frenzy to reduce our dietary fat intake. That started the chase to reduce fat content of our food. Reduction of fat made our food unpalatable. In order to make it edible, sugar was added. What's more when corn syrup was discovered and the US government began subsidising the corn farmers to increase production.
The school lunch program also was run by big corporations which promoted fast food.
The skimmed milk production produced lots of fat which were cleverly used to make cheese. Suddenly cheese was the latest additive to all food, fast food included. School lunches were laden with cheese. Soda drinks started flooding schools.
Sugar has been to have shown to have the same effect on our brain as cocaine. PET scans has shown our brain to light up like a Christmas tree after an ingestion of sugar laden beverage very much like a shot of cocaine! And its equally addictive.
TV advertisements directed at the younger generation had ignited the desire to consume and indulge incessantly.
When the government cuts in to put things in order, the big corporations steam rolled in to put their brakes, essentially holding the country at ransom. They started accusing them of being a nanny state. The public is asked to demand for their rights to eat and do what they want. They called it a human rights.
In other words, sugar in the 21st century is want the tobacco companies were doing in the 70s. The cigarette companies then categorically denied that cigarettes caused cancer and were promoting smoking as a hyped and cultured thing to do. What sugar is actually doing is leaving a nation full of fatties with diabetes, stroke and needing bariatric surgery at a tender age.
Even when the brain knows the theory, the mind is just too numbed by the lure of the media and its power of persuasion.
