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Sugar Coated

  • 2015
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Sugar Coated (2015)
Documentary

How the food industry sugar-coated science, sweetened the food supply, and seduced a planet, one spoonful at a time.How the food industry sugar-coated science, sweetened the food supply, and seduced a planet, one spoonful at a time.How the food industry sugar-coated science, sweetened the food supply, and seduced a planet, one spoonful at a time.

  • Director
    • Michèle Hozer
  • Writer
    • Roxana Spicer
  • Stars
    • Gary Taubes
    • Robert Lustig
    • Craig Wilcox
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    912
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michèle Hozer
    • Writer
      • Roxana Spicer
    • Stars
      • Gary Taubes
      • Robert Lustig
      • Craig Wilcox
    • 3User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    Gary Taubes
    • Self - author of 'The Case Against Sugar'
    Robert Lustig
    Robert Lustig
    • Self - pediatric endocrinologist
    Craig Wilcox
    • Self - PhD., The Okinawa Centenarian Study
    Alexis Gomez
    • Self - Robert Lustig's former patient
    Cristin Kearns
    • Self - dentist
    Yoni Freedhoff
    • Self - assistant professor of family medicine, University of Ottawa
    Jean-Marc Schwarz
    • Self - biochemist
    John Yudkin
    • Self - British physiologist, author of 'Pure, White and Deadly: The Problem of Sugar'
    • (archive footage)
    Ancel Keys
    • Self - American physiologist
    • (archive footage)
    Sami Inkinen
    • Self - triathlete
    Merdith Loring
    • Self - triathlete
    John L. Sievenpiper
    • Self - nutrition scientist, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
    Frank Lisciandro
    • Self
    Sheldon Reiser
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Judith Hallfrisch
    • Self - nutrition scientist
    Stanton A. Glantz
    Stanton A. Glantz
    • Self - professor, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
    Fredrick J. Stare
    • Self - nutritionist
    • (archive footage)
    Arya M. Sharma
    • Self - professor of medicine, Canadian Obesity Network
    • Director
      • Michèle Hozer
    • Writer
      • Roxana Spicer
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    9ken-parker-3

    Great documentary about important topic

    This is a very well-produced documentary about how a "harmless" (according to sugar industry research) ingredient has been added to our diets in toxic quantities. It is powerful stuff.

    The comparison with tobacco co's, their motives and tactics, is frightening. The documentary highlights the fact that it's the same exact playbook. I remember watching the transition in the mid-60's to today.

    They open and close the movie by showing how our holidays and most sacred events are all bathed in sugar. How did the industry pull off such a coup in the most intimate parts of our lives?!

    The movie certainly boosted my awareness of and opposition to sugar.
    8OJT

    Important and interesting

    This Canadian documentary is the kind of documentaries I love. Research- based and with important interviews and interesting facts shown in a graphic and understandable way.

    Sugar is the most drastic change in diet ever made in human history.

    The film discussed the troubled consequences of sugar being put into 75 percent of the processed food we eat. The problem is that the sugar industry does what it can for us to use as much of the stuff as possible, hence the industry earns more. The film also discussed food in general, and the battle of fat and sugar, and the false papers made to make us buy into the "low fat" argumentation, and instead filling the fat gap with processed sugar.

    The film also debates if children today could have a better everyday situation without all the added sugar. You could say sugar being one of the main problems we face in today's world. And it's not only USA and Europe. It's all across the world.

    The Sugar is today's tobacco problem. Scary, but well worth watching.

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    • Release date
      • May 1, 2016 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bañado en azúcar
    • Filming locations
      • Longmont, Colorado, USA
    • Production companies
      • The Cutting Factory
      • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
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      1 hour 30 minutes
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