![]() The inclusion of many different viewpoints make the argument both convincing and engaging, and allows viewers to make emotional connections with individual stories while engaging on an intellectual level with the bigger picture. These include comparing obesity rates and health in Okinawa after the injection of foreign diets, telling the story an endurance athlete who has health issues from the sugar in his diet, documenting the money trails between the sugar industry and scientists who downplay the dangers of sugar, and interviews with medical professionals. The way the interviewees present their evidence is compelling, and is bolstered by an array of narratives that support their view. The film cycles through speakers expressing varying views on the toxicity and dangers of sugar, subtly shifting the Overton Window by implicitly framing these positions as debating one another. It is a film with a strong viewpoint, with a uniformly negative portrayal of figures who offer a dissenting opinion. This keeps the pacing quick and active, and the film capitalizes on this with an excellent soundtrack (including several variants on the aforementioned “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”). It switches between various formats, ranging from historical footage, personal interviews and stories, and voiceover animations about nutritional information and science. The film is very effective in getting its message across. It’s argument, in a nutshell, is that sugar is the new tobacco. ![]() Sugar Coated is a polemical documentary with the twin goals of educating the public about the dangers of the amount of sugar in everyday life, and making its viewers quiver with foreboding whenever they hear the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.” The film details the history of the sugar industry, the growing presence of sugar in the food supply, the sugar versus fat argument in nutrition scholarship, the biological effects of sugar, and similarities between the sugar industry’s tactics and that of the tobacco industry.
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