#cristin_kearns

Determined to give back to the APY communities and support them in their mission to take control of their own nutrition and improve their health status, Damon founded The Mai Wiru (good food) Sugar Challenge Foundation in 2014.It is time to empower people to improve their nutrition and we can do this by raising the much needed money to support community driven programs.
#MAI_WIRU SUGAR CHALLENGE FOUNDATION

The Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation recognises that the relationship of nutrition to health is a complex issue, especially in remote Aboriginal communities. By combining modern and local Traditional Knowledge of food preparation, the Foundation aims to reduce sugar intake by encouraging delicious healthy alternatives and supporting an innovative program of health promotion. Addressing behavioural change takes time and sustained support.The Mai Wiru Regional Stores Policy was developed in 2000-2001 and showed the dramatic changes over time in where people on the APY Lands are sourcing their foods, what was available and its cost to community members. As a result, the Mai Wiru project commenced work with the community owned stores and improve food security (the availability and affordability of healthy food and essential items every day in the local store).

Having healthy food available does not mean people choose to eat that food all the time, or even most of the time. This is where the Foundation comes in. Our programs are developed and designed in an inclusive and sharing way – taking the best everyone has to offer to ensure the best outcomes for community members.

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Et aux #Etats-Unis, Damon Gameau découvre les ravages de la #boisson #Mountain_Dew sur la santé, notamment des enfants :

Le Mountain Dew, stylisé #Mtn_Dew, est un #soda au goût d’agrumes et caféiné commercialisé par le groupe PepsiCo.

Il a été inventé dans la ville de Marion, en Virginie, et a été pour la première fois commercialisé dans la ville de Knoxville, dans le #Tennessee en 1948. Le Mountain Dew (rosée des montagnes) a par la suite été commercialisé à l’échelle des États-Unis à partir de 1964 et était en 2010 la quatrième boisson gazeuse la plus vendue aux États-Unis1. Il est commercialisé en France depuis 20142. Il est généralement emballé dans une bouteille verte, et sa couleur une fois sorti de son conteneur est d’un jaune-vert assez clair, et semi opaque.

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Pure, White and Deadly

Pure, White and Deadly is a 1972 book by #John_Yudkin, a British nutritionist and former Chair of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London.[1] Published in New York, it was the first publication by a scientist to anticipate the adverse health effects, especially in relation to obesity and heart disease, of the public’s increased sugar consumption. At the time of publication, Yudkin sat on the advisory panel of the British Department of Health’s Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy (COMA).[2] He stated his intention in writing the book in the last paragraph of the first chapter: “I hope that when you have read this book I shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous.”[3]

The book and author suffered a barrage of criticism at the time, particularly from the sugar industry, processed-food manufacturers, and Ancel Keys, an American physiologist who argued in favour of restricting dietary fat, not sugar, and who sought to ridicule Yudkin’s work.[2] In later years, Yudkin’s observations came to be accepted.[a][2][4][5][6] A 2002 cover story about sugar by Gary Taubes in The New York Times Magazine, “What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?”, attracted attention,[7] and the following year a World Health Organization report recommended that added sugars provide no more than 6–10% of total dietary intake.[8] In 2009 a lecture on the health effects of sugar by Robert Lustig, an American pediatric endocrinologist, went viral.[9] The subsequent interest led to the rediscovery of Yudkin’s book and the rehabilitation of his reputation.[2][10]

Two further editions of the book were published, the second after Yudkin’s death in 1995. An expanded version appeared in 1986, revised by Yudkin himself, to include much additional research evidence. In 2012 the book was re-published by Penguin Books with a new introduction by Robert Lustig to reflect the changed nutritional context that the book had helped to create.

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The Sugar Film

Traces the increase of sugar in the American diet, from an average annual consumption of 4 pounds 200 years ago to 129 pounds today. Examines the effects of this sudden and drastic dietary change on our physical and mental health, our consumer habits and on our children.

▻https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6342114

Sugar politics

#Cristin_Kearns is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California San Francisco with a joint appointment at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies in the School of Medicine, and the Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences at the School of Dentistry. Additionally, she is an Acting Instructor at the University of Washington School of Dentistry. Her degrees include a B.A. in Neuroscience from Trinity College, a D.D.S. from The University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, and an M.B.A. in Health Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver.

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Rapport du #credit_suisse (oh yes !), très critique envers l’industrie du sucre (si même Credit suisse est critique...) :
Sugar : Consumption at a crossroads

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Sucre, le doux mensonge

Comment, depuis les années 1970, l’industrie agroalimentaire a oeuvré pour augmenter les doses de sucre dans nos assiettes, avec à la clé un problème majeur de santé publique : obésité, diabète et maladies cardiaques se répandent à travers le monde, notamment chez les enfants. Cette enquête dévoile les mensonges de l’industrie sucrière et les recours possibles pour enrayer l’épidémie.

C’est en épluchant les archives internes de la Great Western Sugar Company, l’un des fleurons de l’industrie sucrière américaine, que la dentiste Cristin Kearns a fait une découverte de taille, exposée fin 2012 dans le magazine américain Mother Jones : dans les années 1970, l’industrie mondiale du sucre a mis au point une stratégie délibérée de conquête, visant à inclure toujours plus de saccharose dans l’alimentation quotidienne mondiale et à en dissimuler sciemment les risques sanitaires. Quarante ans durant, l’Association américaine du sucre et ses homologues d’autres continents ont réussi à faire prospérer un empire lourd de plusieurs milliards et à transformer les habitudes alimentaires à l’échelle planétaire. Conséquence de la nouvelle addiction qu’ils ont su généraliser, l’obésité, le diabète et les maladies cardiaques se répandent à travers le monde, notamment chez les enfants.

Sucre et tabac, même combat ?
Le lobby du sucre est désormais au banc des accusés. Sa ligne de défense, jusqu’ici, ne bouge pas d’un iota : il exige de ses détracteurs toujours davantage de preuves de la nocivité du sucre. Ces manœuvres rappellent celles de l’industrie du tabac pour retarder coûte que coûte l’application des décisions politiques. Alors que l’industrie, la recherche et les pouvoirs publics se mènent une lutte de plus en plus dure, la bombe à retardement sanitaire approche de l’explosion… Cette enquête dévoile les mensonges de l’industrie sucrière et les recours possibles pour enrayer l’épidémie.

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v. aussi :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/817415

Qui contient notamment la référence à cet article :
Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies

►https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-industry-lies-campaign

#merci @antonin1 de l’avoir signalé