Fed Up

Director: Soechtig, Stephanie

This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 013132621388
• Release Date: February 2015
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Lions Gate-Sphe
• Director: Soechtig, Stephanie
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Lots of fLots of fat people blame sugar.at people blame sugar.

This could have been a useful presentation. However, the first part is and is scattered with the plight of fat people who are told not to eat sugar. The presentation picks on all the diet fads and companies as temporary solutions that will not help children. There is a good comparison of calories from different sources. And a tad about metabolism. Then the presentation goes off and attacks soda companies as if it were their fault for making irresistible products available. We see slick slides and graphs; there are pictures of food that they say has added sugar; that same food has no added sugar if you read the food industry labels before buying. For example, there is peanut butter without added sugar (or oils or anything). The food industry (whatever that means) is designed specifically for labeling correctly without a vernacular translation. Bottom line is that this presentation, “Fed Up” by Michele Simon, is a rant and very one-sided and telling nothing new. It is intake vs outgo. Exercise does not determine the weight, but what is weighed, excess fat vs. muscle. There is no food industry cabal; there are just purchasing choices. I prefer sugar over artificial and substitute sweeteners. And watch volume intake. I still drink the occasional Mexican Coke with cane sugar.) Once in a while, a teaspoon of strawberry preserves (cane sugar) on an English muffin. So. There is no reason to go cold turkey. The stores offer organic and alternative, minimal-ingredient foods with no preservatives. I still buy grass-fed whole milk instead of that watery stuff. I have lost 25% weight, maintaining muscle mass, and not suffered one bit from the food industry. If I wanted to lose more, I could cut out the occasional indulgence. Bottom line, there is no new information in this presentation; the target is the food industry with no solutions. It dismisses sugar as a bad thing, even if it is part of our natural environment. We spend a lot of time limiting fat people who do not relate to the solution. In general, all it is designed to do is diss the food industry because we make the wrong choices and don’t read labels.