In Michael Specter’s article “How Much Harm Can Sugar Do?”, he expresses his feelings about how the war on obesity is changing America and is becoming the new normal in our nation. The war on obesity is proven to be a major problem in the United States, causing multiple diseases more common though is Diabetes. The War on Obesity is described by specter as a war in which the “allies and demons keep swapping places.”. Allies include Good Health, Healthy Foods and a fit lifestyle while the Demons are the Fast Food Joints, Candy bars, and an unhealthy lifestyle. In America everyone wants to have that beach body throughout their lives, however in today’s society most people just want to get rid of the gut. Specter includes his personal experience
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“My mother, keenly interested in the health of her children, insisted that we put margarine on our wonder bread.” If parents in today’s society were like this to their children the future wouldn’t seem so insecure, if we had a set way to do things and to stay fit we could change the way we are. Specter introduces Damon Gameau who sacrifices himself in the documentary “That Sugar Film”, to show how harmful sugar can be to the human body. In this documentary Gameau discusses the illnesses that can come along with the consumption of sugar from Diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease. The whole documentary is an experiment to demonstrate what will happen if our bodies become addicted to sugar. As human beings we all seem to have a person who can make us better for Gameau he described himself as someone who lived on pizza and cigarettes all his life until he met his girlfriend who was able to change his life around. However, in the hope of making better lives he spent a 2-month period consuming forty teaspoons per day hoping to find the effects of such a horrible diet. The director of the film Morgan Spurlock had nothing but McDonalds for a month, and consumed the equivalent of Nine BigMac’s a day. Eating so many calories in this horrible diet could place him on the path of obesity and other …show more content…
When over eating or consuming to much sugar can clot out our bloodstream. In the documentary Gameau proves that honey, castor sugar, and high fructose corn syrup all have the same effects and can all cause diabetes. One point Gameau explains is that if we cut out sugar everything in our body becomes healthy again. In 1973 he went to a town who do not consume processed foods including: Coca-Cola, Ice Cream, Processed deli meats, etc... As time went on many high processed foods came into the area and to the people who didn’t have any nutritional information it was a treat. Within the coming months they began developing diabetes and other illnesses. Prominently in Western Civilizations obesity and over eating is a very common thing and it should not be tolerated. People have the opportunity to change who they are and how they want themselves to look. Having a secondary source such as Gameau’s documentary can really wake up some people’s assumptions on obesity and calorie intake. Within the two-month period that Gameau was on this diet he gained massive amounts of weight and was on the verge of getting diabetes. Calories are not only sugars each calorie the body can process differently; carbs, proteins, sugars, calcium all are
“My mother, keenly interested in the health of her children, insisted that we put margarine on our wonder bread.” If parents in today’s society were like this to their children the future wouldn’t seem so insecure, if we had a set way to do things and to stay fit we could change the way we are. Specter introduces Damon Gameau who sacrifices himself in the documentary “That Sugar Film”, to show how harmful sugar can be to the human body. In this documentary Gameau discusses the illnesses that can come along with the consumption of sugar from Diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease. The whole documentary is an experiment to demonstrate what will happen if our bodies become addicted to sugar. As human beings we all seem to have a person who can make us better for Gameau he described himself as someone who lived on pizza and cigarettes all his life until he met his girlfriend who was able to change his life around. However, in the hope of making better lives he spent a 2-month period consuming forty teaspoons per day hoping to find the effects of such a horrible diet. The director of the film Morgan Spurlock had nothing but McDonalds for a month, and consumed the equivalent of Nine BigMac’s a day. Eating so many calories in this horrible diet could place him on the path of obesity and other …show more content…
When over eating or consuming to much sugar can clot out our bloodstream. In the documentary Gameau proves that honey, castor sugar, and high fructose corn syrup all have the same effects and can all cause diabetes. One point Gameau explains is that if we cut out sugar everything in our body becomes healthy again. In 1973 he went to a town who do not consume processed foods including: Coca-Cola, Ice Cream, Processed deli meats, etc... As time went on many high processed foods came into the area and to the people who didn’t have any nutritional information it was a treat. Within the coming months they began developing diabetes and other illnesses. Prominently in Western Civilizations obesity and over eating is a very common thing and it should not be tolerated. People have the opportunity to change who they are and how they want themselves to look. Having a secondary source such as Gameau’s documentary can really wake up some people’s assumptions on obesity and calorie intake. Within the two-month period that Gameau was on this diet he gained massive amounts of weight and was on the verge of getting diabetes. Calories are not only sugars each calorie the body can process differently; carbs, proteins, sugars, calcium all are