CBS - The Secrets of Sugar - the fifth estate

[luke wilson]

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ksKkCOgTw

We’ve heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food labels, despite emerging research that suggests the sweet stuff may be making more of us fat and sick. In the fifth estate’s season premiere, Gillian Findlay digs into the surprising science — and the reaction from the food industry — to reveal The Secrets of Sugar. Has the sugar industry been hiding an unsavoury truth from consumers?

A small but influential group of medical researchers is stirring up the health debate, linking sugar not just to rising obesity rates but also to a host of diseases including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.

We put a family of four on a healthy diet to try to beat their sugar habit and track the surprising results. We talk to leading scientists – and their critics. And we ask the food industry why those ingredient labels are far from clear when it comes to how much sugar is really on your plate.

My own take, thought it was a relatively well done documentary about sugar from the mainstream i.e. sugar is bad for you is the ultimate message.

What else I liked about the documentary is how they try and portray a 'balanced' view. In this way it becomes so transparent how science is bought out and you see 'scientists' in the flesh on camera totally sell out what is common sense for the sake of a job from a corporation. Ultimately, money rules. There are insinuations about how these corporations influence government, the UN etc (stuff that we already know anyways!).

It also does show how there is science behind the sugar addiction which is exploited by the scientists working for the corporations i.e. they go out of their way to get people addicted to their products for return business I guess. For example, learnt a new terminology, the bliss point.

Ultimately, the take home message is, don't buy processed foods, the corporations have got everything on lock-down, so just avoid any food products they make.

They also link sugar consumption to pretty much many horrendous diseases out there, cancer, alzheimers, heart disease, diabetes etc.

 

[neonix]

This is interesting documentary that shows the problem, but its mainstream documentary. :)

What is suspicious about this documentary is that they don't say nothing about vitamins and minerals that are needed to process sugar in our body and about food quality that is decreasing. There's also no word about correlation between vitamin D and diabetes, cancer and depression. They also don't say that fats contain vitamin D.

This documentary is telling only half truth.

Government know that spendings for health care will be growing tremendously and thats why they do this kind of documentary. But they don't tell whole truth. They blame only sugar, but there's more factors that create problem.

 

[luke wilson]

This is interesting documentary that shows the problem, but its mainstream documentary. :)

What is suspicious about this documentary is that they don't say nothing about vitamins and minerals that are needed to process sugar in our body and about food quality that is decreasing. There's also no word about correlation between vitamin D and diabetes, cancer and depression. They also don't say that fats contain vitamin D.

This documentary is telling only half truth.

Government know that spendings for health care will be growing tremendously and thats why they do this kind of documentary. But they don't tell whole truth. They blame only sugar, but there's more factors that create problem.

Yes, just concentrating on one thing alone doesn't show the inter-connectivity of what constitutes good healthy diet.

Also, the documentary implicitly implies that fat in general is bad for you, plus not to mention tobacco.

So yeah, it's good regarding sugar in isolation but bad regarding all the rest.