Fully saccharified Heavy Sick by sugar

Everything is sweet and sugar is everywhere. That's about the simplest definition of industrial food production in today's affluent society. The consequences, especially for health, are drastic. Diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and death.

Sugar everywhere: The creeping death. Image: Syda Productions - fotolia

A creeping process, but constantly demanding his life-threatening tribute. Because even in baby food, sugar is included to make the children addicted.

Damon Gameau massively reduced his sugar intake to impress a woman. The resulting effect was stunning, according to him: "I have never been fitter, slimmer and more balanced."

Amazed by the positive effects, he decides to do an experiment: After three sugar-free years, he again turns his diet around. For 60 days, he consumes 40 teaspoons of sugar per day equivalent to the average consumption of an Australian - and this exclusively in the form of so-called healthy foods such as muesli, low-fat yoghurt and juices. Sweets are taboo! The result is shocking: nine kilos more, the early stages of fatty liver and diabetes!

From these experiences a current book has been created. It says "Fully Sugared - That Sugar Book" and describes how the sugar drug destroys our bodies and our brains and how easily we consume sugar without knowing it. As a resourceful sugar detective, Gameau shows how we can change our eating habits. With over 40 recipes, he also manages another move in the fight against sugar! (Sb)