Name: Damon Gameau exposes the impact of our 'sugar addiction' | Australian Story (2016)
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Australian outback is the last true cathedral on earth. You are just in this enormous expanse

and there's something quite spiritual about that, I think. Where we're going to, in

Pipalyatjara, that's maybe 800 ks south-west of Alice; so it's a long way inland. The

first time I went out there I found it really overwhelming I felt that I didn't belong there

and I still get a sense of that when I go to the APY lands that you do feel honoured

to be allowed to be there because it is, a very strictly, tightly controlled Aboriginal

space. When Damon was very young he did “The Tracker”

with David Gulpilil and they had a really close connection.

I respect Aboriginal law as much as you respect whitefella's law – maybe more

It was the first time I'd ever met an Aboriginal man and was just completely captivated with

him and his stories. Them blackfellas – they probably cooked

him and ate him. You know, we're all cannibals... LAUGHS

To go and spend time with him and live with his family and live off the land and hunt.

It was just a complete ... I was only 23 and it blew my mind, because I'd never experienced

something like that. But I felt the magic of that, and the simplicity of it, and that

it just made me feel different. But there was an element ... when I'd seen how much

Coke people were consuming and that kind of really shocked me

And that image stayed with him, and little did he know at the time how pertinent it would

be to his unfolding story around sugar, down the track.

Damon: It's not just saying fizzy drinks are bad – drink water but understanding

why, especially regards kidneys and Type 2 diabetes and what not...

People in the APY Lands, I think, live ... their average life expectancy is about 55 years,

so it's 20 years less than we do. This is a dry community, there's no alcohol here,

hasn't been there for 40 years. So all these diseases we are seeing there are predominantly

Yeah, yeah, Kellie's been busy. I've been sort of going around spreading the news – prepping

everything. John Tregenza's one of those people that I,

you know, I feel very, very fortunate to meet. In the last 35 years, he's seen the health

deteriorate, and that would be very hard to watch, so that's what drives him, I think,

to keep going and trying to, try and make a difference.

Damon discussed with me what we might be able to do in tackling these chronic illness problems.

Myself and Kelly and Fiona, the two nutritionists, really want to help out.

I think one of the important things that has really helped is the fact that they're volunteers,

cos Anangu relate to the fact that people come out here out of their own goodwill to

try and do something to help them. For me, it's like, can't we at least give

these people healthy, nutritious food, you know and I guess that's the driving motivation

for doing what we're doing at the moment. When I met Zoe, self-care wasn't high on the

list, I was still enjoying a packet of cigs a day and a couple of Cokes.

I was aware of eating healthful foods. When Damon came into the picture, I think he was,

he was curious. We met in Timor, in a place called One More Bar. I was over there shooting

a documentary, and Damon came over for 'Balibo'. Damon as Shackleton: The buildings here are

deserted. We spoke to one soldier today who believes that a potion given to him by his

family, BOOM!!! Bomb goes off And I remember thinking, wow, he's handsome,

he's intelligent, he's charming, and doesn't he know it.

And I just, yeah, every cliché in the book, I just, I was like, oh wow, that's the girl

I'm going to be with for the rest of my life, I just had one of those things.

Damon was very much in that acting world. When you're part of that scene you're inclined

to go out, get a bit drunk, or have a good time.

But I knew as soon as I met her, I'm going to have to change some things in my life.

She's the one, but I've got some work to do. I hadn't been drinking for quite some time,

and he'd been dabbling with the idea of not drinking, and that sort of bonded us in a

small way, we kind of both liked the lucidity of our relationship.

It was tough, early on, because I was so used to sweet things that I was sitting at dinner

going, no, give me some salt or sweetness, for god's sake, smother this in barbecue

sauce. But I got to a point where I started going, wow, I feel different, I'm sleeping

like I've never slept before and people keep commenting on my, on my eyes and my skin and

I've lost some weight and, what's going on here. I started seeing some articles about

sugar, and I thought, well, I know my experience from that is quite real, so I wonder and then

it kind of all snowballed from there. My name is Damon Gameau. Sugar has become

so prevalent in today's society, that if you removed all the items containing it from a

standard supermarket's shelves, just 20 per cent of items would remain.

Having been an actor it was an inevitable transition for him to be making films eventually.

There was a few stats that were quite motivating to me, and one was that Type 2 diabetes now

kills someone every six seconds, around the world, and this is a disease that's preventable

by diet, um, the fact that one in four Aussie kids are now overweight or obese, and so we're

seeing, for the first time in history, children get type two diabetes. From my perspective,

I didn't want that to happen to my child. And there's so much debate and conjecture

on the topic that it's hard to know what to believe. The only real way to get some answers

is for me to start eating sugar again and see what it does to my body. So here are the

rules for my next 60 days. I must consume 40 teaspoons of sugar a day.

When he was gearing up to shoot and make the sugar film, he was almost in perfect physical

condition to do such an experiment on himself, because he had very little refined food already

in his diet. I was thinking about how to tell the narrative

– how do you tell the story – and I picked up a can of tomato soup and I saw that it

had seven teaspoons of sugar in it, and this was just like a one-serve tomato soup, and

I thought, I don't reckon many people would know that there's almost as much sugar in

that as a can of Coke, you know, and yet this is really perceived as a healthy, savoury

meal. So, that's really how, how it started, and I thought, I wonder if I could eat what

most Australians are eating every day, but actually do it through the foods they're not

aware of. Because we did the experiment where I didn't have any chocolates or ice cream

or lollies or, you know, I was only eating perceived healthy foods, I genuinely didn't

think, or know, that we'd get any effect. But the fact that things started happening

to me so quickly, and my body started deteriorating very quickly, we probably could have stopped

the experiment after 30 days. After 60 days and 2360 teaspoons of sugar,

I gained 8.5 kilograms over all. The speed at which my high sugar diet was affecting

me, took us all by surprise. I was going to have to expand the scope of the experiment

and this would take me out of town for a few days.

By the end I'd developed pre-Type 2 diabetes, I had heart disease, I had 11 centimetres

of visceral fat, which is the fat on the inside of your body – that is the more toxic, dangerous

fat. The big one was the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease was almost in a full-blown state

where, if it goes much further, you know, it starts to harden and you get the cirrhosis

of the liver. One of the things that was always important to me was, I thought I don't want

to just make a film. Part of me was, what are the next steps, like how do you actually

impact change? Just 100 kilometres from Uluru is the small

town of Amata. In 2007, its population of just under 400 people consumed 40,000 litres

of soft drink. I just found this story about this town Amata

in the APY Lands where the elders had got together and decided to remove full-strength

Coca Cola, I just went, wow, that's ... that, that needs to be told.

When Damon approached me he said he was making a film and he asked if it was possible to

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