This has direct echoes of the headline grabbing efforts of Morgan Spurlock bingeing on MacDonalds in Super Size Me or the time that Werner Herzog ate his shoe in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.īut it is not really the masochistic element of the film that hits home. Gameau also goes for the immersive documentarian stunt of subjecting himself to a sugar-filled diet for sixty days. Jamie Oliver for one recently upped the ante, on Gameau’s ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’ footage, by sitting in on a foot amputation caused by type two diabetes and screening footage of mothers bottle feeding their babies Coca-Cola. Other sugar-free crusaders have been slowly adding to the pile of evidence pointing towards the heinous crimes of this carbohydrate. Images like the one above certainly add the shock value to this documentary. In a relieving piece of news, available on Facebook, he has now had all his teeth replaced. ![]() Larry’s teeth are not replaced by the end of the documentary though, because his system would not respond properly to the anaesthetic required. ![]() In the film Dr Smith points out that he’s seen so many teeth rotted by Mountain Dew that he’s coined the term ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’. He drank too much Mountain Dew.Ī problem not uncommon, according to dentist Dr Edwin Smith, who appears in Damon Gameau’s documentary That Sugar Film. Well they did belong to Larry until they were all pulled out. The teeth in the picture above belong to teenager Larry from Barbourville, Kentucky.
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