Some used words like ‘toxic’ and ‘poisonous’ while others cried ‘essential for energy’. Film about impact of sugar on my bodyĪt the time, there was a lot of press starting to emerge about sugar, but the camps were very divided. I had also directed my first short film, won a large competition in Australia with it, and had been approached by a production company to make a first feature film. Jump cut to three years later, and my girlfriend and I had bonded so well that not only had we purchased our first couch from IKEA, but we didn’t even argue when assembling it (love’s true test). I felt calmer and more balanced and present throughout the day.
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People commented on my improved skin and eye brightness, I noticed that I had lost a few layers of my hibernation suit and the biggest surprise was the affect on my mental state. Two months into this rigorous ‘wooing’ process, I began to notice the changes. As a result, and without thinking much about it, I soon went from consuming around 30 teaspoons of added sugar a day to virtually none, apart from the odd square of fancy-sounding artisanal dark chocolate. I nodded in anticipation at her kale and cucumber smoothies, feigned excitement at avocado on chia seed bread and inhaled mountains of organic vegetables and weird sounding naturopathic potions. The other thing that happens with a man, is that when he is trying to impress a woman, he pretends to be interested in a whole range of things that he has actually never even heard of before. I saw all of my current patterns of behaviour combust in front of me, like putting a lighter to a ball of candy floss. I knew the moment I laid eyes on that radiant and effervescent creature that I was done, but that I had some serious work to do Vanilla Cokes and cigarettes were not going to penetrate the healthy force field that surrounded her.
I can happily report that this happened to me. I told myself I enjoyed smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and pouring two cans of Vanilla Coke into my body.īut as often happens with a man, he is wrenched from the clutches of self-destruction just in the nick of time by a nurturing and emotionally intelligent woman. My love of self had certainly been applied well to clothing choices and facial grooming but had yet to influence my nutrition. In the warm Australian summer of 2008, I was pretending to enjoy life as an early 30s single male.
Damon Gameau is director and star of That Sugar Film, in which he ate a ‘ healthy’, low-fat diet for 60 days – to highlight the health impact of eating sugar hidden in foods you don’t expect.
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