Australian actor and filmmaker Damon Gameau is our guest today in Episode 988 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR THAT SUGAR FILM
That Sugar Film – Official Trailer
Ever since Dr. Robert Lustig’s famous Sugar: The Bitter Truth hit YouTube in 2009 going viral with nearly 6 million views, a bright light has been shining on the detrimental role sugar is playing in most chronic health problems people deal with today. For an Australian actor and filmmaker named Damon Gameau, who gave up sugar to impress his girlfriend, he knew the time was right to do something dramatic to illustrate just how deeply entrenched sugar has become in our food supply–even the so-called “healthy” foods. That’s when he decided to go on a 60-day sugar diet using these health foods to create a highly-entertaining, hilarious, and eye-opening documentary called That Sugar Film which has already become the all-time highest-grossing documentary in Australia just months after it released. The film made it’s momentous American debut in U.S. theaters on July 31, 2015.
THE HILARIOUS THAT SUGAR SONG MUSIC VIDEO
That Sugar Song – Official Music Video
Listen in as Jimmy and Damon share about how he thought of the audience as he was making this film, how he got interested in being involved in nutrition using his acting/filmmaking skills, how his girlfriend got him to greatly reduce his sugar intake and the health benefits that gave him, why he wanted to do a 60-day sugar experiment to cut through the noise of both sides of the sugar debate, the humor and playfulness that was infused perfectly into this film, why he didn’t do the multiple, rapid-fire expert after expert in the film, why they stayed away from sensationalists in the film, how the sugar companies need to be held more responsible for their health claims, how the film has gotten people to throw away most of their pantry, the high sugar content of the “healthy” foods people consume, how we’ll someday see the advertisements using famous people pushing sugar as odd like we do cigarettes today, his visit to America and how easy it was to get plenty of sugar in his diet, the disgusting marketing of fruit juice, why cutting sugar isn’t just about weight loss, how the word “organic” has lost all meaning, how eating real food is the best way to avoid these sugars, how his partner got concerned with his health towards the end of the 60-day period, how going back to his healthy diet turned his health back around again after his sugar experiment, the difficulty in changing back to healthy again, why this matters for the children who are our future, how the growing awareness of the negative effects of sugar is getting people to give it up, The Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation charity his film is supporting, and the kid in Kentucky who rotted all his teeth drinking Mountain Dew.
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– Damon Gameau bio
– That Sugar Film official website
– That Sugar Film trailer
– Where That Sugar Film is playing U.S. theaters
– The Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation
– That Sugar Film on YouTube
– That Sugar Film on Facebook
– That Sugar Film on Twitter
– That Sugar Film on Instagram
Most of your guests think eating meat is a good idea. A minority don’t think so (Dr. Gandry: the people with the worst cardiovascular markers are the paleos”‘ Dr. Ron Krausse: “people should eat meat on special occasions”, Denise Minger: it’s unclear from the studies if meat is harmful or not). So as a person who is very unskilled at reading research, I have to think: play it safe, avoid meat even though there’s no definite research so far that is convincing either way.