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Sugar- John Oliver

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John Oliver talks about sugar and the industry and the impact of the high sugar North American diet.

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talk about talk about Halloween as of tonight just full days to find your inappropriately sexy costume whether it's sexy Barney the dinosaur or a sexy candy corn oil as Playboy's website recently swear to you this is true a sexy John Oliver costume  what is an actual photo of a human dressed up to look like a sexy men photo Roy now I'm pretty sure as Louie CK about his sexy let's agree sexy Halloween costumes have simply gone too far but it doesn't matter because we all know what Halloween is really about sugar treats 2.2 billion dollars on candy without to be fat that does include Necco Wafers which might be better classic what does coagulated dust  react to describe sugar as a treat considering how much we eat it all year round today the average written consumes 22 teaspoons of sugar a day three times what we need that's equal to 75 pounds of sugar a year for every man woman and child in the United States of sugar that's a little less than it was in the late nineties it's still pretty incredible so let's talk about sugar everyone loves it and it turns out that's because sickly program to a neuroscience MRI scanners to learn how sugar activates the brain in a special way it's very reminiscent of unit regular cocaine Scarface would win a very different movie if it ended with Al Pacino sitting in a chair sugar out of his mind good site Google what being so visually appealing to its Franklin no wonder the food manufacturers put it in everything I do mean everything about 35% of the service at that Americans consume come from beverages but we're also talking about salad dressing you know Breads and cereals and crackers and the list goes on and on even to beef and turkey jerky everything that we ate the original tomato cocktail with clams so they clearly proved The Taste but I think sugar instead of thinking let's improve the taste of removing the Clown I'm not going to be a problem for the fact that as we all know excess sugar is probably not good for us both vulcanization I'm the American Heart Association against the homes of eating too much of it in some studies suggest the too much sugar can literally mess with the brain this rat is perfectly healthy put him in a vat of water and he finds his way to safety every time  5.2 now look at this guy  what he's been eating is the equivalent of a North American diet complete with all the fats and sugar is we regularly consume she doesn't know where to go is brown has been damaged unable to find the island that's a Pixar movie waiting to happen by the way but the industry is not going to type the findings of a wet confused rat lying down powerful 5 billion dollar industry who fought for decades to projects that products health benefits the sugar Association used to claim that product was a diet fight with odds positioning in as I kill for the fats time of day with a woman saying if sugar can fill that Hollow feeling on old for it yes nothing says I don't feel whole inside like a woman sitting alone eating straight from a bag of sugar  the sugar Association house a little more sophisticated since then he was president not does not contribute to obesity or diabetes  I think of you to a basin  what song is the only color what is definitely one of the key suspect who killed a first grade class I think we all know one of them killed it the most I'm talking to you Kevin you killed that hamster you drove your father away how did Kevin what are some scientists to dismiss links between sugars and obesity Princeton's this guy to take a complex situation like obesity and we say well gee if we could just cut down on sugar beverages or added sugars in general that would solve a Beastie and I think that is a very slippery slope and almost certainly wrong. James rippe who motto juice house to contain quantitative Haven sugar himself he's on the payroll of the Corn refiners Association the corn syrup iPhone $5 a month Regina from them that's half a million dollars a year for that much money you expect not doesn't link to a big city X-ray vision I don't sign the corporate money distort science when researchers looked at two sets of white gang studies one group with conflicts of interest like funding from soda companies I'm going group that was Independence the vast majority of scientist studies found direct links between sugar sweet and soft drinks and white kind of places to eat and the vast majority that Independence play suspicious was I research paper tacos I'm so delicious attributed to a dr. pepper  pull up regardless of whether sugar terrible for you the answer to all of life's problems shouldn't you at least get to know when it's been added to your food going to Taipei song  this week the FDA is reviewing new nutritional labeling standards and food makers tonight just list total sugar set but how much sugar they're adding to their products honeycomb cereal to reveal what in God's name their mascot was been forced to reveal how much sugar you are adding to people's food but there is no way the food manufacturing industry is going to let that happen FDA is being swamped with letters from every conceivable product from the national yogurt Association to the National frozen pizza Institute to multiple representative of the cranberry industry I think we can all agree is most disgusting  turn Breeze taste like cherries who hate you cranberries taste like what a raspberry drinks before it's cold in oscopy  I'll be Ocean Spray come route to the FDI sign countries on naturally low in sugar keeping them a distinctly taught astringent even unpalatable taste yet that's the head Ocean Spray describing its defining ingredients as unpalatable it's no longer I want certain cranberry products to be Exempted from the added sugar declaration which is tantamount to begging please don't make us tell everyone how much sugar we dumped on all garbage bulk Berry  put the milk revealing play tighten the American Beverage Association who wrote that if there is to be an added sugar label it must be measured in grams and not teaspoons teaspoons make an unfair negative connotation that undermines the factual nature of nutrition information which is diculous negative connotation does a teaspoon have unless you think you have an annoying due to the darn who's always trying to balance one on his nose I thought used to freebase heroin but neither of those things is that teaspoons faults the only reason the beverage people once you get to be measured in grams instead of taste understand what a teaspoon is no one understands the metric system which is why this proposed after I feel like it's completely missing the Pooh stripper really wants us to understand how much sugar is in our food they need to find a measurement we can immediately grasped that is why tonight we are proposing in the spirit of Halloween the product manufacturers Express that sugar content in the form of candy specifically circus peanuts the most sting of all the candidates play taste like an elephant ejaculate into a packet of Splenda who is Morgan 5 ends of sugar in each one of these horrible things saying two companies used in your products he like on the one on the front of the packaging you display how much sugar it contains in the form of circus peanuts so for instance 64 oz of Clamato juice 80 grams of sugar or 16 peanuts worth I can of Campbell's tomato soup five-and-a-half peanuts a package of 20 seconds putting up all these 20 speed outside consumers mastodons manufactures adult this measurements so please tweet at them using the high show us your peanuts  you awesome to whip up a prenup I wasn't up to you we don't want to that's embarrassing nobody wants to see all peanuts there orange and misshapen you tell them again show us your peanuts do it food makers expose your peanuts in the world because if you are going to shove your peanuts in our mouths the very least you can do is tell us what will swallow it

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