article_snippet: A documentary maker who embarked on a high-sugar diet for 60 days to demonstrate the dramatic effect of sugar on the body has weighed into the debate about controversial new coke product, 'Coca Cola Life.
article_snippet: Damon Gameau spent two months eating so-called 'healthy' foods such as juice, cereal and sports drinks for a documentary called That Sugar Film - exposing the prevalence of 'hidden sugars'.
article_snippet: Damon Gameau Damon Gameau reintroduced sugar into Damon Gameau diet after three years with shocking results .
article_snippet: Dr Rooney highlighted research carried out in the eighties where rats were given a sugar solution, a saccharin [artificial sweetener] solution and only drank a certain amount.
article_snippet: But when rats were given both sugar and saccharin mixed together rats drank more than rats normally would.
article_snippet: It’s called a super mix, a little bit of sugar and sweetener drives over consumption… if this translates to the human population then that is fantastic for ’s profit line,Dr Rooney said.
article_snippet: In documentary 'That Sugar Film' Dr Rooney aims to highlight the sugars that are often hidden in 'health' foods .
article_snippet: Professor Amanda Lee of Queensland University of Technology, and former chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council's Dietary Guidelines Working Committee, told the Sydney Morning Herald
article_snippet: Nutrition Australia would still say that while it's safe it's still encouraging people to want to eat sweets.