How the Sugar Industry Keeps You Hooked 

In the US? Watch WHILE THE REST OF US DIE here: bit.ly/3Mj8vBF

It’s annoying hearing people justify bad food by saying “I’m here for a good time, not a long time” But once they start developing health issues, their time changes real quick.

I stopped drinking sodas back in 2013. A month ago I decided to cut all juices & alcohol and drink water only. Two of the best decisions I ever made.

Once I started cooking all my food and only eating real food excess fat has just melted off. I basically don't have to do anything to maintain a proper body composition.

If the big sugar companies are doing that image what big pharmaceutical companies and government agencies are lying to you about lol

The worst is foods marketed as "low fat" that have significantly higher sugar levels. I even see "fat free" on labels for candy.

Fast food isn't a cheaper option anymore anyway

Even facing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, vice still churns out these quality documentaries

One day after considering my diet choices while looking at my body. I thought of what I REALLY wanted. I've tried to lose weight for so long. But that time, it clicked. It's sugar! I told my girlfriend and I held my lumps aggressively. I told her a couple of times: "it's the sugar!!" Few months pass, very little physical activity. I eat fatty foods like a pig. I'm down 40 lbs. Many symptoms of adhd just started to become less pronounced. And I have so much energy.

Don’t eat fast food and don’t drink soda. You’ll be good

All that sugar keeping you big as hell

I love that Vice is publishing this!

It's almost like corporations are financially incentivized to retain recurring customers...shocker.

I've cut out almost all sugar and I started at 245 and without exercise I'm now 163

One time i had a friend staying with me in the US from Copenhagen, Denmark (Europe) and after going to the grocery store a few times to stock up for a couple days he said something like “Man how come in America you have to pay more for less ingredients?” ….. that was a good 4-5 years ago and i think about it every time im in a grocery store😔💯

This is the vice I signed up to ❤

I'm from Europe and we are shocked about the stuff the US people eat, and how uneducated they are when it comes to food. The prime example is Bread, why does the US Bread contain sugar? The same accounts for ready meals, or semi ready meals like pre made sauces. We don't need experts in Europe to tell us how bad sugar is, everyone knows it and we grow up with it and learn to check packages for sugar content and how to calculate it.

As long as there is ultra processed foods and people to consume it, there will be an entire sector of the health care system dedicated to treating people who are sick because of the ultra processed foods. Without the foods, the added sugar and the health care sector to treat these people, our economy would be turned upside down and that's why no one does a damn thing about it. So disgusting.

This is the kind of content I would love to watch in my 10th grade health class

Whole foods cooked at home will get the job done every time. We just need to get back to basics. Skip the boxed, packaged, and fast foods and you will see your health improve. It's not that hard.

This needs to be a series

EVERY item I look at in stores seems to have HFCS in it. It's bizarre sometimes, too. PEANUTS?!? Like... why. WHY. What's the purpose of *that*?! Are you crazy? I'm lucky I don't have a peanut allergy in the first place. I don't want to see much else other than "peanuts, oil, sea salt" or whatever. Also, I've seen sugars (or HFCS) in mustard, ketchup, SOUPS (wtf?!), and even potato, rice, or corn chips. Again, seriously, ARE YOU CRAZY?

Great video but found it hard to concentrate with the background music

What an awesome video! It gave me goosebumps 🤯🤯🤯😭😭 thank you for the numbers at the end, so, so eye-opening

Fascinating insights! This historical perspective really underscores the importance of transparent labeling and consumer education to combat industry manipulation. Awareness is key to making healthier dietary choices. 👍

The funny part is all of VICE’s doners and major share holders are the ceos and coos of these companies they reporting on 😂😂

I just had this conversation with my friend. I gave up fountain soda, and the fast food is trash, so I have that up as well. I've lost so much weight.

Superb content! I would be very grateful if you could add some bibliography about the topic to the description of the video or in the comments box. I find it very important to be aware of this industry.

That's why when I'm feeling lazy, I just cook eggs. Way better than any ultra-processed foods.

If I remember correctly Phillip Morris owns Kraft, Nabisco, and Miller. That would make so much sense

Thank you Vice! Great information, I definitely did not know the facts about dietary fats

Thank you More awareness to all

Make it your personal revolutionary act to avoid consuming sugar or sodas. Drink only water. Eat food as close to its original state as possible.

Thank you sm for bringing this to attention ❤

I've got 4.5 years eating clean whole foods. The only junk I consume is coffee creamers from International Delight with sugar. No Junk food at all. Now give me 25 jumping jacks for the healthy like I just gave you.

And then people wonder why we distrust experts/scientists. Everyone has a price.

Please more in this.

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

Good video keep making things like this Vice ♥️

Wow a Vice video worth a damn!!

This is all just so true as someone who is literally addicted to SODA I definitely feel sick to my stomach..... I was given soda when I was about 3 years old I was truly hooked from the. I have tried before to go without soda when I was in my teenage years & I'll tell you right now how SICK I would get ..... I pretty much have had a soda every single day of my life since I was a kid.....& Mind you I was a VERY athletic kid growing up I ran track placed 1st in all my meets & I was never bigger than 125 through my whole life until about 5 years ago .....Now that I'm in my 30s struggling with my health & now my weight went all the way up in the 200lbs soooooooo many health problems now soooooo many..... Now I have to drink a soda before I go to work cause if I don't by the time I'm halfway through my shift I start getting really nauseous & anxious, irritable & ESPECIALLY the HEADACHES mann they get SOOOOO bad they turn into migraines..... Even when I get home finally drink some soda it slowly starts to go away & it's actually pathetic really cause as much as I would love to stop or cut back on sodas there's always that voice & me that tells me "no you don't you'll get sick" & nobody should have to feel like that because of SODA & trust me I've tried alternative drinks nothing helps it hard to be a dark soda either Pepsi or coke that's it I don't really care for any other soda I don't even like light sodas ..🤷🏻‍♀️ people try telling me "oh you need caffeine drink some coffee or something"🤦🏻‍♀️ it's 1000000% NOT the same nothing else with help until I finally drink a soda 😔 It's all confusing & irritating & I can't stand it anymore I don't want to be like this at all & I have definitely been working on it little by little I don't want to live a short life because I have become addicted to sodas ..... I definitely don't want to feel that way anymore whatsoever

is kinda rare now days to find products with real sugar everything is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.... "HFCS is cheaper and sweeter than sugar, and is absorbed into the body more quickly. The FDA has approved HFCS as a safe ingredient in foods and beverages, in part because of its similarity to sucrose. However, eating too much HFCS can lead to obesity, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and insulin resistance. Some studies suggest that fructose is more damaging to health than glucose because the digestive tract doesn't absorb it as well as other sugars."

Kids im 30 I just started eating only grains ,fish and geen vegetables. Its a lil bit taste for a low amount of money. Plus it has everything your body needs except water and oxigen

Ive lost most of my teeth and i blame Soda, and specifically: Mtn Dew.

Quitting sugar is super easy. Step #1: replace all sugar containing foods with "artificial-sweetners" alternatives. Step #2: replace "artificial-sweetners" alternatives with healthy options. Its easy because artificial sweetners are not addicting. All people in my family quit sugar easily using steps above.

I stopped drinking soda when I was 18, but I know there's a lot of sugar in other foods I eat.

I dont view any food as "bad". Any food is ok in moderation. Its just that in today's time most peoples entire diet consist of these foods. If you ate real whole foods a majority of the time but had some mcdonalds or a soda every now and then it would make no changes to your health. Its when ppl drink soda and eat mcdonalds day in day out that makes it horrible.

I quit drinking 15 years ago. Quitting sugar is harder.

Carbonated water w lime is the new soda

It sounds like they hired the guy from Cops for the voiceover

I wonder what’s in our water

narration and dreadful music sounds like AI prompt “Video on FDA sugar conspiracy use Ganglang format”

Very interesting

need a new level like levels of process and distinguished from refund and natural sugar and what health impact levels are.

Yeah i know BECAUSE IT IS IN EVERYTHING

This drives me up a wall, our society is so corrupt

Restaurants in Argentina aren’t allowed to use salt for cooking anymore and that resulted in much lower cases of hypertension at hospitals!😊

I manufacturer sugar in India....i manufacture about half a million tons every year....the demand for sugar expecially the export is CRAZY!! India is the largest sugar manufacturing country in the world, if you didn't know

Ive been struggling with a soda addiction Thanks for this Ill wean off this month

Thank you Vice, for showing the truth.

I knew about this. But thanks Vice

Good to see VICE doing the work it used to do, which many aren't courageous enough to do.

Amazing mathmatical demonstration at the end, very informative video! This is something we need to all agree on and once we do, we'll start to live longer and more healthy lives.

The best thing that can happen is, fast food joints pay employees higher wages which in turn makes fast food more expensive to buy. Back in the day i might have visited a hamburger joint once a month maybe. All meals were prepared and eaten at home.

Trying to break my Sprite habit. I tried Jamaica for the first time a week ago. It's the most refreshing drink (aside from water) that I've ever had. I finally found a replacement.

I quit tobacco and alcohol. Fast food cravings hit about as strong as those, for those curious. We can’t ban sugar, but it’s because of how easy it would be to get around the ban and not because it’s harmless.

Here in the U.K our government minister in charge of the nations health care is married to the chairman on British Sugar, the countrys biggest sugar producer. The hustle goes on and on.

I completely quit soda cold turkey and lost 20 pounds in 3 months. No other changes. This is a no brainer

What are the names of the doctors who are speaking in this video?

finally, a vice video about vice

I’m only 21 and was born with pretty crappy genes, both my mom and grandma have dentures, and I had to get all my teeth surgically removed at 17-18. Teeth just fell apart over the years. Can’t afford dentures so I’ve lived the past like 5 years without any teeth at all.

Read a book called sugar blues. I’ve not consumed any sugar cane since 2015. I’ve never felt so great!! Sugar is like cocaine or heroine put all 3 side by side, they are natural, same possess and all 3 are highly addictive- don’t be a slave to sugar!!!

I couldn’t find any sliced bread that doesn’t contain sugar

If anyone goes to México for a vacation or to visit family I recommend you go to a nutritionist, there are very good nutritionists in Mexico. Ask for recommendations depending on where your going.

I get a craving for coca cola and a 12 oz fixes that craving. But the craving returns soon, like in 5-24 hours. If I take vitamin C, the craving for cola goes away & doesn't come back. Is that what you have found also ?

I cut out soda completely in 2019 and now I might have it once a year if even that. I no longer even think about drinking it and I feel way better. Plus means I can get away with eating a bit more junk food when I feel like it.

Blatant evil. I lost almost 200pounds cutting out processed garbage. Saved my life.

Once i saw my glucose hit 109, I unhooked my self, no more sugar industry for me

Is it cool if I drink around 8 a month, usually after significant workouts? Thanks.

Lets be clear....tax on sugar-y sodas is still bad regardless the backing of "big sugar".

The problem is the corporations that amass enough influence to afford effective lobbying think it’s their right to do so.

Nutrition labels do list sugars that are not naturally occurring, it’s listed as “added sugar”

This is good.

I'm not pays for Soda because mostly drink Iced Tea or Coffe, not really eats any fastfood because it's cheaper if you choose street vendor in my case. So yeah, the only setback is if you trust the seller. So Yup, mostly hygiene issue but everything is fine

Cheap food also has a cost, only later in life

When the public is ignorant, the public gets manipulated easily. Do your own research. Keep an open mind. Hear all sides. Don't follow recklessly. And listen to your body and instincts. Oftentimes, they are correct.

There was a really good documentary from DW on hows is sugar affecting our brain etc. It was called Better brain health. Try to guess why it was taken down :)

Yes. True. I have to stay away from sweets. I am an addict. 😢

It is time to stop the sugar subsidies, and cut back on the production of corn, soy, wheat and to put warning labels on products that contain HFCS. dangerous industrial seed oils, weird chemicals and additives. People would be smart to just stop eating ultra processed foods as much as possible. I quit that crap about a decade ago. Was recently on a vacation and realized how difficult it is to eat on the road. All the restaurants, good ones still serve the same processed crap.

It's so idiotic how people know what is in this garbage and continue to consume it and wonder why they are laying in the hospital a few years later. These corporations are allowed to put whatever they want on store shelves, no matter what it is, it's all about profit not your health.

I gave up soda 9 years ago. Its easy to stop if you have the right motivation

I’m happy I don’t eat anything premade it’s for this reason I like to know what I’m eating

That's why people in the US run away from ambulances, Healthcare just costs too much. Didn't know it was that bad

if you have a problem, start with kicking out soda and you'll notice a huge change

I don’t drink soda whatsoever It messes up my stomach Now with food | just cook your own food but not processed already and just needs a heat up. Just cook raw chicken or raw whatever needed to be cooked.

I was disgusted by the people saying the sugar tax wouldn't do any good. So what if you yourself don't care about your health? Other people need to be financially disincentivised to buy sugary drinks because most people care about their own health and it's this information imbalance that causes people to buy what is addictive in low amounts and poisonous in high amounts. That guy saying he didn't care about his own health was such a sweat for the pockets of CEOs that never knew him. That or he held shares in one of the companies. Either way he'd be valuing his interests in the money machine above public health.

I've been trying to quit soda for 6 months now nore addictive than nicotine

You know what else we have more of them ever before? Food you can eat without teeth. We also have more Americans get rejected at the 11th hour. Doctors save lives, insurance puts a dollar amount on the effort.

I have managed to let go of added sugars for about 5 months and the results are positive as I have mostly lost a lot of bodyfat plus even feel less depressed thanks to this. Without robert lustig, I would never known the real truth of sugar.

Jokes on them, I'm so poor I can't afford sugary drinks anymore.