Man eats sugar-heavy diet for 60 days, receives shocking diagnosis
Man eats sugar-heavy diet for 60 days, receives shocking diagnosis
Following in the footsteps of Morgan Spurlock, who ate only McDonalds food for one month in the film Super Size Me, an Australian man has undergone a sugar-heavy diet for 60 days to explore the ingredients impact on his health.
In the upcoming That Sugar Film, Damon Gameau, a filmmaker and TV actor, vows to follow a strict diet of healthy, low-fat food with high sugar content, News.com.au reported.
Within three weeks, the formerly healthy Gameau became moody and sluggish. A doctor gave him the shocking diagnosis: He was beginning to develop fatty liver disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, the most severe outcome for fatty liver disease is liver failure.
I had no soft drink, chocolate, ice cream or confectionery, Gameau told Yahoo. All the sugars that I was eating were found in perceived healthy foods, so low-fat yogurts, and muesli bars, and cereals, and fruit juices, sports drinks ... these kind of things that often parents would give their kids thinking theyre doing the right thing.
Gameau reportedly consumed 40 teaspoons of sugar per day, or slightly more than the average teenager worldwide, according to News.com.au. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the average American consumes 20 teaspoons of sugar daily.
The AHAs daily recommendations for sugar consumption are 6 teaspoons for women and 9 teaspoons for men.
In That Sugar Film, Gameau observeed that the additive impacted his physical and mental health. Doctors called his mental functioning unstable, and the father-to-be reportedly put on nearly four inches of visceral fat around his waist. He was on the fast track to obesity.
Gameau said his sugar-laden diet left him feeling hungry, no matter how much he ate.
His final meal which consisted of a juice, a jam sandwich, a bar, and a handful of other snacks is similar to an ordinary childs school lunchbox.
Sadly, it was very easy to do and fitted comfortably into the small plastic container, Gameau wrote on his blog documenting his experiment.
The last meal was for all the people out there, especially parents, who are led to believe they are doing the right and healthy thing for their children. They are making an effort yet are horribly let down by the lack of integrity in marketing and packaging strategies.
Gameau told News.com.au that the experiments findings dont suggest a need to completely cut sugar but rather a need for more awareness about how much sugar has been added to perceptibly healthy food.
Sugars now in 80 percent of the processed food were eating, he said. If we can remove that, thats the first step towards making a change.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3 percent of the population, have diabetes. In adults, type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90 to 95 percent of all diagnosed diabetes cases. Research has shown that sugary drinks are linked to type 2 diabetes.
Consuming excess added sugar is also associated with a higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseasethe leading cause of death for men and women in the United States, according to the CDC. Heart disease accounts for one in four deaths in the United States, or about 600,000 annual deaths.
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Sugars now in 80 percent of the processed food were eating, he said. If we can remove that, thats the first step towards making a change.
I need to make my husband watch this. He loved super size me but took the wrong messages away from it. I keep telling him that the low fat junk he eats is way over processed and full of sugar and devoid of decent nutrients.
He complains that I tell him all food is bad for him... but all I want is for him to eat more fresh food ... even whole fat food... as long as it's not processed.
Processed foods are the path to an early grave.
These is sugar and sodium in almost everything. Has he ever read some of the labels on packages?? If so,then maybe he'll change his habits...I'm still trying to get my diabetic hubby to change his eating habits.....sigh
Kav...that's for sure!!
Gee, I didn't know that about wheat bread....thanks!
ROFLOL !!
Is that something your significant other is forcing you to do Fish?
Wilford Brimley is my new best friend.
Sourdough is the bread ticket. "5 Reasons To Make Sourdough Your Only Bread" #5 speaks to the sugar issue.
I never would have known......thank you so much for his link!!