Tag: Nutrition experiment

In *That Sugar Film*, filmmaker Damon Gameau consumes an average Australian's daily sugar intake—40 teaspoons—from seemingly healthy, processed foods for 60 days. This experiment serves as the dramatic narrative framework for the documentary's deeper exploration of sugar's insidious health impacts.

In his 2004 documentary *Super Size Me*, Morgan Spurlock undertook an extreme fast-food diet for 30 days, consuming an average of 5,000 calories daily. This caloric overload was central to his experiment, exploring the detrimental health effects of an all-fast-food lifestyle and directly answering the question of how many calories did Morgan consume a day.

Starch is a polymeric carbohydrate produced by most green plants for energy storage and is the most common carbohydrate in human diets. This article explores common food samples that contain starch and provides a simple experiment using iodine to test for its presence.