Read, "It Starts with Food"!
I just watched this and I will admit it was very informative. I am lucky to be married to someone who has a very solid understanding of healthy eating. Because of my wife, and years of reading Mens Health, I know a lot of things about the food I choose to eat that the people in this documentary and honestly most people do not. The fact that sugar is in just about everything these days and that calories are very different from food to food. It was difficult watching the people thinking they were making good choices and eating healthy with the cereals and "low calorie" low fat" food" that is ultimately full of sugar.
I do give the filmmakers credit for highlighting the real culprit of fat and disease in the large consumption of sugar. What I wish they would have done is stop making every fat person some type of victim of government failure. While the government could probably be doing something better lets be honest, the government never will. The reality is that there is too much money and power in the food industry which is okay as far as I am concerned. The way to stop "Big Food", is to stop buying it. People need to start taking some personal responsibility for themselves. Harsh, I know, and a viewpoint that was criticized throughout the movie but come on.
There are endless resources available to everyone these days. Anyone can go to a public library and for free use the internet to learn about healthy eating or for free check out a book. I recommend, again, It Starts with Food. All you need to do is educate yourself just a little bit. We need to stop waiting for other people to solve our problems all the time. The issue of childhood obesity is a big one and I fully understand the vulnerability of kids with advertising and sugary foods. But we as parents have the ability to make the correct choices for ourselves and our families. Sugar filled foods are just cheap and easy, so people stock up and chow down.
I could only give five stars because although very informative and eye opening, this documentary fell back on such a typical expose format, blaming someone else. Imagine what would happen to childhood obesity if we stopped blaming the government, and "Big Food", and thought for ourselves just a little bit. When we see our children getting fat and being made fun of, rather then calling out the food companies and assuring ourselves that it's not our fault, we took control of the situation and changed our lifestyle. Educated ourselves and our children so that moving forward they had the power to make better decisions and truly understand the food they eat. We did it with tobacco. Private groups are telling us all the time what tobacco does and fewer people smoke these days. When someone does smoke, and gets sick, popular culture holds them responsible because they knew the dangers.
I know this is a concise response to a complex issue but rather then be offended by it, try it. Take control. Detox. Drink water!
I just watched this and I will admit it was very informative. I am lucky to be married to someone who has a very solid understanding of healthy eating. Because of my wife, and years of reading Mens Health, I know a lot of things about the food I choose to eat that the people in this documentary and honestly most people do not. The fact that sugar is in just about everything these days and that calories are very different from food to food. It was difficult watching the people thinking they were making good choices and eating healthy with the cereals and "low calorie" low fat" food" that is ultimately full of sugar.
I do give the filmmakers credit for highlighting the real culprit of fat and disease in the large consumption of sugar. What I wish they would have done is stop making every fat person some type of victim of government failure. While the government could probably be doing something better lets be honest, the government never will. The reality is that there is too much money and power in the food industry which is okay as far as I am concerned. The way to stop "Big Food", is to stop buying it. People need to start taking some personal responsibility for themselves. Harsh, I know, and a viewpoint that was criticized throughout the movie but come on.
There are endless resources available to everyone these days. Anyone can go to a public library and for free use the internet to learn about healthy eating or for free check out a book. I recommend, again, It Starts with Food. All you need to do is educate yourself just a little bit. We need to stop waiting for other people to solve our problems all the time. The issue of childhood obesity is a big one and I fully understand the vulnerability of kids with advertising and sugary foods. But we as parents have the ability to make the correct choices for ourselves and our families. Sugar filled foods are just cheap and easy, so people stock up and chow down.
I could only give five stars because although very informative and eye opening, this documentary fell back on such a typical expose format, blaming someone else. Imagine what would happen to childhood obesity if we stopped blaming the government, and "Big Food", and thought for ourselves just a little bit. When we see our children getting fat and being made fun of, rather then calling out the food companies and assuring ourselves that it's not our fault, we took control of the situation and changed our lifestyle. Educated ourselves and our children so that moving forward they had the power to make better decisions and truly understand the food they eat. We did it with tobacco. Private groups are telling us all the time what tobacco does and fewer people smoke these days. When someone does smoke, and gets sick, popular culture holds them responsible because they knew the dangers.
I know this is a concise response to a complex issue but rather then be offended by it, try it. Take control. Detox. Drink water!