consumer health awareness
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Do these films have something in
common?
It is a
documentary
about the effects
of eating a
“MacDiet” three
times a day for a
month.
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Spurlock followed specific rules
governing his eating habits:
He must fully eat three McDonald's meals per day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
He must consume every item on the McDonald's menu at least once over the course of the 30 days .
He must only ingest items that are offered on the McDonald's menu, including bottled water.
He must only Super Size the meal when offered.
He will attempt to walk about as much as a typical United States citizen.
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THAT SUGAR FILM documents the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived, or promoted to be 'healthy’ for 2 months.
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Both actors are the “guinea pigs” of their
own experiment.
In both experiments, their health is
damaged.
Sugary drinks have made his
teeth rotten, despite regularly
brushing his teeth
No, each year 26,000 primary school
children go to hospital just because
of rotten teeth. Sugar is the main
cause why children in the UK go to
hospital
What is the average amount of sugar
that many people in the UK consume?
7 teaspoons is the
recommended
amount.
In the UK many
people usually
consume about 40
teaspoons of sugar.
Yes, we have seen an example which
exceeds by 5 times the recommeded
amount because of the hidden sugar
in food.
Type 2 diabetes, which could be considered a diet-related illness. This illness used to be associated to old people, now there are more and more kids in the UK who have been diagnosed with it.
• No. 70% of confectionery sales are impulse buys and sweets are at child eye-level and easy to reach.
The health system is collapsing because there are a
lot of people suffering from diabetes, blindness-
related diabetes. Furthermore, lots of them are
losing their limbs because they needed to be
amputated.
The soda tax was introduced in Mexico
in 2014. Soda consumption has
decreased, and water and milk
consumption increased.
Jamie Oliver introduced it in his own UK
restaurants to give an example to the
government about what could be done on a
national scale. He is going to spend that
money on children's food education.