This week, as Magda learns more about her own health status, she unpacks the frightening reality of how so much of the food we eat is making us sick.
Type Two Diabetes is one of the world’s fastest-growing chronic illnesses, with one Australian diagnosed about every 8 minutes.
Magda learns that the commodification of food and the rise of ultra-processed food and snacks are behind Australia’s epidemic of chronic disease. She uncovers how much ultra-processed foods, high in sugar, fat and salt, lurks on our supermarket shops – and the challenges facing Australian households trying to shop healthily.
Magda realises the importance of mandatory and transparent health food labelling and tackles the new Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care about this. She also returns to Mansfield where school children are being supported to eat and cook with unprocessed foods — making long-term sustainable change to their health outcomes.
But Magda also learns that Australian toddlers and babies are growing up addicted to sugar – and uncovers how much sugar is contained in some processed kids’ foods and snacks.
Provoked to action, Magda shows Australians how much sugar we consume in our lives.
Production credit: A Southern Pictures production for ABC in association with Film Victoria. Executive Producer: Laurie Critchley. Series Producer: Mish Armstrong. ABC Manager – Factual: Julie Hanna. Acting Head of Factual and Culture: Richard Huddleston.
I lost my father to sugar addiction and the system was his dealer. People do not realise that sugar and refined carbs hits the same spot in the brain as cocaine and herion. Big pharma makes a alot of money playing with politics and the dieticians association is funded by the likes of Kellogs and
Sanitarium an amazing story in itself!