I did a search, but this documentary was made 5 years ago and it may have been posted a couple years ago.

My daughter encouraged us to watch this. Don’t be put off by Katie Couric’s involvement; it’s important to hear what’s said. It’s available on Prime, not sure about the other streaming services.

I think I mostly ate sweets out of habit. I’ve pretty dramatically reduced sugar intake (along with flashy carbs like white flour) since watching about 4 weeks ago; I’ve lost 9 pounds since then.

Watch it with your loved ones.

Thanks for posting, I didn't watch it yet but have bookmarked it to watch later for sure!
I'm quite convinced how bad sugar is for us in any amount more than very slight quantities.

I recall a statistic something along the lines of in the 50's an average American ate like 3 lbs a year. Now, something like 55lbs a year.

Will watch it when I have more time, but I can tell you just by switching to diet pop about 4 years ago, I lost 60 pounds and have kept it off.

Couple statements from the documentary.

“For the first time, in the history of the world, more people will die from the effects of obesity than from starvation.”

Cases of type 2 diabetes among adolescents in 1980:
- 0 -

Cases of type 2 diabetes among adolescents in 2010:
- 57,638 -

“As physicians, we know how to take care of a 50 year old or 60 year old with type 2 diabetes, where none of us have gone is to take care of that 10 year old with type 2 diabetes for 5, 6, 7 decades. We don’t know the consequences of that, and it scares me greatly.”
- Dr. David Kessler

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
I recall a statistic something along the lines of in the 50's an average American ate like 3 lbs a year. Now, something like 55lbs a year.

I drink 2 Throwback Mt. Dews a day, that's 44 grams of pure cane sugar each. My math is 32,120 grams or 70 pounds a year in Mt. Dew sugar alone. I've moderated my other junk down to only that is my pure vice, but HFCS slimes itself in to everything anymore that I wouldn't be surprised if I am 100 pounds a year of sucrose-related intake. I guess some time that will catch up with me, but I don't have lead paint or asbestos to chew anymore.

New Hampshire says we ate 123 pounds a year in 1970 and we are at 153 a year today.

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Originally posted by TMats:


Cases of type 2 diabetes among adolescents in 1980:
- 0 -

Cases of type 2 diabetes among adolescents in 2010:
- 57,638 -

I don't believe that for one second.

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Originally posted by kr350psd:
I don't believe that for one second.

Nor do I, and TMats, this is not directed at you, but anyone who wants to lecture me about sugar or tobacco or anything I choose to consume, go fuck yourself and mind your own business.

I don't smoke, but I'll eat refined sugar as much as I damn well please. I'll eat red meat, cooked on a grill, with 6000 cubic yards of wood smoke infused into it, and whatever else I please.

Have a Twinkie, gents.

One name stuck out in that doc.

Kolbacher. She is a dem senator from MN running for potus. When the time came to write the new sugar nutrition laws...

She went to bat for the sugar industry to bury the facts and omit the daily allowance on the food label.

So yea, Dems always looking out... for da moneh’!

Here’s my favorite Twinkie recipe: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-_FO9p8Xdg

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- George Santayana

I still encourage you to watch it. Decide what what sounds reasonable to you, and what doesn’t.

Bigmule, you’re referring to Amy Klobuchar. One of the Dem presidential candidates, I believe. She does not come off well in the documentary.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- George Santayana

Smoke by hamburger until it thinks it's a doobie. - Para

Seriously- it's my body, and anyone who thinks they can tell me what to do with it and what I can or cannot put in it needs to just sit and spin. Partially hydrogentated? Fuck that. Give me the full boat. This or that food is a carcinogen? Yeah, first thing, tell me about your government grant, and have a doughnut while you're doing it, professor.

All sugar is not bad. And what happened to moderation in things? 123 lbs. a year??? How is this figure calculated? Does this include the natural sugars found in fruit, that we're always lectured to eat more of?

Honey and Stevia is all I add to drinks, etc.

The real killer is high fructose corn syrup which is in about every thing so you have to limit these products or your Johnston will shrink and fall off.

The FED is worried about Medicare and other Government insurance and people living a happy life. Every body wants the full course.

There is also a big link between sugar and cancer.

I just finished watching the movie on Amazon Prime. Absolutely scary where we are heading. It's worth an hour and a half of your time.

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Originally posted by ruger357:
There is also a big link between sugar and cancer.

There's a link between everything and cancer. Life is terminal. Let's talk about the government grants behind this stuff.

As sure as I'm sitting here, there's some 106 year old man up in the Appalachians who has drank moonshine liquor and smoked unfiltered cigarettes from the time he was 12, and he's still in better shape than most of us

I'm not changing my life on someone else's say-so, especially when it comes to funded studies.

I hate hospitals almost as much as I hate Government dietary guidelines (which are based on marketing, not on science).

When you think in terms of First Principles then there are probably only half dozen diseases that can probably be reduced to insulin resistance including cancer, diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer's to name a few.

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The real killer is high fructose corn syrup which is in about every thing ...

That's because it's in nearly everything. (It's in everything because it's relatively inexpensive.) If they put cane sugar in everything like they do HFCS, then that would be the real killer.

Simply stated: Ingesting a lot of sugar is not healthy, and Americans consume a lot of sugar.

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And what happened to moderation in things? 123 lbs. a year??? How is this figure calculated?

Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup is in damn near everything, things you would never think of. I looked at a container of cole slaw at the deli counter the other day... HFCS way up top in the ingredients list. Sure I expect it in pancake syrup, but cole slaw?