Soda, cakes, cookies, candy, ice cream, etc. are the most consumed high sugar processed foods in America.  But some “healthy” foods like yogurt and energy bars and whole-grain bread are also high in sugar. Obesity is not just a problem in America. A lot of people think that most of the causes of obesity come from eating the bad high sugar foods like soda or cakes and cookies but how could that be a big effect on obesity if healthy foods like yogurt and whole-grain bread have a high level of sugar? A film called “That Sugar Film” a man stopped eating healthy food and started to eat 40 teaspoons of sugar a day that is the amount consumed by the average Australian. In America, the average teen consumes 28 teaspoons of sugar a day. What Mr. Gameau does in his study is that he does not consume candy, soda, ice cream or other clear sources of high sugar foods but only ate foods that people think are healthy but are loaded with sugars, like low-fat yogurt, fruit juice, cereals and health bars. After one month of his experiment, he found out that his health and weight became out of control.After 18 days, he found that he had developed fatty liver.

He decided to do this experiment because how many problems everyone had with sugar. Everyone knows that by drinking a lot of soda, eating donuts and cookies would make you gain weight but what people do not know that by following a ‘”low-fat”, diet with healthier foods or snack that you think you will not gain weight but those things contain almost the same amount of sugars added to it just like the candy and ice cream. Another thing he found most surprising was that with everything he ate he never felt full and it was affecting his moods and was trapping fats in his body.

A study also was done in Australia that 55 percent of people get their nutritional facts from food labels and only 25 percent of people get their advice from outside sources. The government had tried many different things to change the food labels to make people stay away from the bad foods. However, the  nutritional facts on the back of packaged foods is trying to convince people to stay away from high sugar foods only but not exactly every high sugar foods. There’s no risk of lowering sugar intake, but it was found that sugar is not just the only factor of obesity. Like the other film “Super Size Me” when Morgan only ate at McDonalds for 30 days and gained almost 30 pounds in almost 2 weeks.