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so eating too much sugary snacks and over indulging will make me fat?

posted 9 years ago by nogard64
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DUH!

Maybe they can make more enlightening films to teach me what happens when I go out in the rain? Will I get wet?

Maybe their next movie can teach people what happens when a person jumps off a building? Will this person get injure and maybe even die? Oh I don't know, I need Katie Couric to investigate and educate me on these complicated issues!

Can walking into the middle of a busy freeway be safe for me? Or will it hurt me? I just have no idea please Laurie Lennard please make a movie to show me.

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[–] amy_dowell2000 9 years ago

In this film people were trying to make good choices. The point was to show how sugar hides in everything. You can't ignore the statistics from the 70's to present day.

[–] nogard64 9 years ago

really there were statistics? So all the data points to sugar increase in the 70's? Ever heard of the internet? Its a fun little tool you can look up actual facts not just believe everything you hear!

Coca cola founded in the 1890s

Pepsi 1890s

Twinkies and Hostess 1930s

Snickers started in 1930s

Mars Candy 1911

Hersey Candy 1890

Gatorade 1965

so literally none of the companies they want to blame started out in the 1970s!

Funny things is the STUPID movie didn't address the issue of High Fructose Corn Syrup.... and I quote from the Wikipedia page on HFCS:

" Industrial users of sugar were continually looking for cheaper replacements and HFCS was rapidly adopted as a lower cost sweetener when a food grade version became available in the 1970s. HFCS derived from corn is more economical than sugar in the United States."

So yes keep blaming natural sugar and keep blaming the soda companies while the culprit and the 10 ton elephant in the room is standing right there in plain sight.

Again the movie was a very biased and very subjective and skew slam piece to push a false narrative a phony scare mongering tactic to support big govt intervention. Make soda companies out to be the bad guy but completely ignoring the real problems and the real issues, its the liberal way, throwing money and slapping on band aids onto a broken arm while the patient bleeds to death.

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[–] rocknrollcrook 9 years ago

Did you watch it? It didn't just blame soda companies. And corn syrup was addressed. People are misinformed -- purposefully according to the film -- by marketing.

Parents send their kids to school with 20 oz Gatorades, but they wouldn't send them with soda because they think Gatorade is good for you. But the scientific studies show it's like drinking soda.

And it wasn't a partisan issue. It clearly showed how members of both parties argued or enacted legislation on behalf of the food corporations.

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[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 8 years ago

You are wrong!

Tommy Thompson, the secretary of human health and human services was the BIGGEST crook who told the WHO that they would not be getting the funds, if they published the document. IT WAS A CONSERVATIVE THAT SCREWED AMERICANS OVER!!

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[–] SpicyGazpacho 9 years ago

Did you watch the documentary? They explain how in the 1970s the amount of sugar in food increased because of the low-fat craze,which caused companies to add in more sugar to replace the fat.

[–] stazza 9 years ago

he/they/she probably work for sugar companies.

yes, doesn't sound like they were paying any attention - and here to post innaccurate statements about the film to disprove it, when all the stuff WAS covered.

[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

Ever heard of the internet? Its a fun little tool you can look up actual facts not just believe everything you hear!

Yet none of the facts you looked up had anything to do with the movie. Regardless of when the companies were founded, the problems started in the 70's.

Let's be bad guys.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 8 years ago

You probably did not know HOW the sugar was hidden in the foods. It is easy to say duh now, after you watched it and hey, maybe there was an off chance that you did your own research and found out that there was this dilemma. Point is, there are other people who do not and for them, this is good for them. Does not make you any better dude. Just makes you a jerk!

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