This U.S. documentary centres around the obesity epidemic among young Americans in the U.S. during the past thirty years. The exposé includes knowledge on the true way nutrition works and how the U.S. sugar, cola, and junk food industries have manipulated governments to keep their profits high at the expense of so many people.
Considering the conspiracies exposed in this film, it must have taken a lot of courage for the film-makers and interviewees to participate in this daring project.
There are scientific facts about how nutrition works and whether exercise can actually burn calories from certain foods. Some of these facts are presented with cartoon-like graphics. This helps maintain attention as scientific facts are occasionally hard to follow.
The movie's deeper truths are exposed with the lies about nutrition (claiming that calories from a cola have the same consequences as those from almonds) and the devious ways that large corporations have hijacked many well-intended government health initiatives including those outside the U.S. borders such as the World Health Organization and those within U.S. borders such as Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign to fight child obesity.
It's easy to feel down by the end of this film although there is a bit of optimism in the reference to the battles won against the tobacco industries. In any case, the graphics, interviews, old footage and the downright courage of everyone involved in "Fed Up" made the film well worth viewing.
Considering the conspiracies exposed in this film, it must have taken a lot of courage for the film-makers and interviewees to participate in this daring project.
There are scientific facts about how nutrition works and whether exercise can actually burn calories from certain foods. Some of these facts are presented with cartoon-like graphics. This helps maintain attention as scientific facts are occasionally hard to follow.
The movie's deeper truths are exposed with the lies about nutrition (claiming that calories from a cola have the same consequences as those from almonds) and the devious ways that large corporations have hijacked many well-intended government health initiatives including those outside the U.S. borders such as the World Health Organization and those within U.S. borders such as Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign to fight child obesity.
It's easy to feel down by the end of this film although there is a bit of optimism in the reference to the battles won against the tobacco industries. In any case, the graphics, interviews, old footage and the downright courage of everyone involved in "Fed Up" made the film well worth viewing.