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1. Anna

   June 1, 2009 | 9:26 pm

   

   Thanks for mak­ing that awe­some doc­u­men­tary avail­able. This should be shown on all PBS sta­tions, CNN, CNBC, etc. If only every­one really new the whole story. It is the same men­tal­ity of the large cor­po­ra­tions / big busi­ness and some polit­i­cal realms that are gov­erned not by a con­scious­ness on how oth­ers are affected but by basic greed. A sim­i­larly sit­u­ated story is presently being aired on CNBC ? (I think, but can’t remem­ber the exact sta­tion) titled “Who Killed the Elec­tric Car?” It was far more effi­cient, eco friendly and reli­able than the gas engine but because the Big 4 couldn’t make exces­sive prof­its, it was under­mined and shut down despite hav­ing lots of money given to them by the Carter gov­ern­ment to develop this tech­nol­ogy. In a nut­shell, it was the Bush admin­is­tra­tions that lit­er­ally unrav­elled it all in cahouts with the Auto matk­ers and oth­ers. A great sim­i­lar­ity to the strate­gic mis­in­for­ma­tion which the sugar indus­try has taken in this doc­u­men­tary. Why is it we are never pleas­antly sur­prised, only dis­ap­pointed in the lack of car­ing, igno­rance and for­sight of those who wield the power?

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2. Shosh

   June 2, 2009 | 4:03 am

   

   This was a very good doc­u­men­tary and it should be spread all over the world. Maybe more peo­ple will open their eyes to see what we are doing to our­selves. We are no less slaves than the slaves that worked the fields. Thank you for the great lesson

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3. Andrea

   June 2, 2009 | 5:05 am

   

   I under­stand refined sugar (sugar which has been stripped of the vit­a­mins & min­er­als which it nor­mally con­tains) adversely affects us because the body has to leach these vit­a­mins & min­er­als from other foods we eat, & from its own sub­stance, which cre­ates imbal­ances & com­pro­mises our over­all health.
   It is dis­tress­ing to see the genaral accep­tance of refined sugar prod­ucts as “harm­less”, & people’s igno­rance about the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of con­sum­ing them.
   As a child in the 50’s, sug­ary foods were for birth­day par­ties, & sweets (con­fec­tionery) were treats your aun­tie or grand­fa­ther brought when they paid a visit. These days,children expect to have sweets reg­u­larly, & can buy them eas­ily them­selves. So many foods we con­sume are laced with sugar.
   If “The peo­ple, united, can never be defeated”, it’s time we all edu­cate each other on the sugar issue, includ­ing the modern-day slav­ery involved, & reclaim our own & our children’s health!

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4. Cristie

   June 2, 2009 | 1:02 pm

   

   I know and have known intu­itively that this sugar addic­tion is tak­ing over our chil­dren. I think that as a par­ent WE need to instruct our chil­dren of good eat­ing habits and exer­cise. I had an idea that sugar was every­where but see­ing how many items con­tain sugar and the many names sugar goes by even the “healthy items” I have been pur­chas­ing are actu­ally not healthy. So now I have to spend more time read­ing the ingre­di­ents instead of just reach­ing out for items at the gro­cery store. What a battle!

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5. Nancy Hall

   June 2, 2009 | 4:10 pm

   

   Hi Angelique!
   That was a good arti­cle, thank you. I read through the mate­r­ial and watched the doc­u­men­tary on sugar and was shocked with some of the his­tory and obe­sity rates. Thank you for shar­ing this!
   Here’s to jus­tice, con­scious use of said toxin and the inform­ing of oth­ers so that we might all be health­ier.
   Bless­ings
   Nancy

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6. rafael Rojas

   June 3, 2009 | 12:58 am

   

   good doc­u­men­try .,as of last april i’m a casu­alty of this war. I am diag­nosed with diavetes. sounds sim­ple but if you see the con­se­cuenses of that dis­eace you will see the big pic­ture.
   keep up the good work.

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7. Mag

   June 4, 2009 | 7:08 pm

   

   This, the sugar doc­u­men­tary is so dis­turb­ing… I shud­der. I am a well informed indi­vid­ual, and yet, some of these facts, espe­cially in rela­tion to ‘slav­ery’, were not appar­ent to me. I have a son, who has never had the mis­for­tune of a cav­ity to any of his teeth, he is now 24. We go to the same hygien­ist, she asked me what I had done, as it is so uncom­mon, that she could count on 1-hand how many times this has hap­pened in her 30 years of prac­tic­ing. My son was raised with very lit­tle sugar prod­ucts, and no soft drinks and lit­tle juice.
   I watch too many friends and fam­ily mem­bers get big­ger and unhealth­ier each year, as their intake of sug­ary fran­chise junk is con­sumed on a reg­u­lar basis. I am con­vinced that the rise in the’anti-depression’ drugs is a direct result of the over con­sump­tion of these refined and sug­ary foods. Cer­tainly ADD/HADD, has a link up as well, we have a whole gen­er­a­tion of peo­ple lit­er­ally raised on ‘processed’ foods, when has that ever hap­pened before, never!
   Thankyou for shar­ing this excel­lently researched and deliv­ered doc­u­men­tary.
   Sin­cerely, Mag­gie MacLean NLP/HSE

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8. jodie

   June 4, 2009 | 9:38 pm

   

   Knowl­edge is Power! If peo­ple only knew… Spread the word. Lead by example

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9. Laura

   June 6, 2009 | 3:15 am

   

   I have cut back my intake of sugar almost to noth­ing but I would indulge in the occa­sion­aly birth­day cake or other event like wed­dings to have a piece of cake. But the con­se­quences for me for even a lit­tle amount is very trou­bling. My moods change con­sid­er­ably and I have mem­ory loss, espe­cially of names of peo­ple of peo­ple I see in my line of busi­ness and for sev­eral days after eat­ing the high sugar and white flour that is in highly processed cakes espe­cially cakes pre­pared by gro­cery stores.

   A recent arti­cle in Body and Soul mag­a­zine states that high sugar intake is being asso­ci­ated with alzheimers and that is totally scary.

   I even noticed that my skin seems more wrin­kled and older when I eat sug­ars. I am 61 years old and don’t need help to look older. It is very hard to avoid sugars…but the best way is to cook every­thing from scratch and to know what the ingre­di­ents are. I use sweet­ners like Ste­via and I do use molasses and have devised a cake and cook­ies made from oat­meal and fruits like apples and car­rots that are sweet and don’t con­tain the white sugars.

   It is up to all of us to stop the high usage of sug­ars in our fam­i­lies. No one else will even rec­og­nize this espe­cially big busi­ness of sugar man­u­fac­tur­ers who only see the bot­tom line and care noth­ing for the health of the peo­ple. Highly processed sug­ars are noth­ing less than addic­tive and should be declared a TOXIN.

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10. Alessio Bianco

    August 8, 2009 | 3:05 pm

    

    Dear Angelique,

    Thank you for shar­ing this not-so-sweet infor­ma­tion about sugar and the sugar indus­try. I have been aware of most of these facts for some years, how­ever, the two videos, and accom­pa­ny­ing infor­ma­tion make the points so well I shared the link to said with friends, fam­ily and acquaintances.

    Instead of being addicted to things that have such unfor­tu­nate and highly unfa­vor­able aspects and con­se­quences, I wish the world’s peo­ple one day would become “addicted” to doing good acts and to lov­ing one another. Some­day, per­haps it may come to be so.

    By the way, if I may say, the pic­ture of you in the coun­try­side with your lovely long brown hair I found to be most becom­ing. A pic­ture of an angel in what seems to be a peace­ful place that could be paradise.

    Shine on, bright star, in our con­stel­la­tion of lights.

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