This documentary largely focuses on kids and their struggle to be thin in a world where most cheap food is very bad for them. I grew up in the aftermath of the McGovern hearings .. and I did exactly what they said. I ate muffins, I dieted... and I have been overweight my entire life. Spent so much money on gyms and diet plans and pills and the weight just wouldn't come off. Just like the kids in the documentary. This is not a "blame everyone else but me" documentary. The truth is that many of us didn't know how bad sugar was for us and didn't know that it was in almost every food that we would not have even thought it would be in. (Ketchup Bread). Most people do think that the products in the supermarket *couldn't* be that bad for you or they wouldn't be sold... but they are. Even now, at the end of the coronavirus pandemic you will see people continue to eat sugar and never think anything of it. It is depressing that this came out in 2014 and still nothing has changed. The cafeterias they showed in this movie were a disgrace. Pizza Hut in the schools? Horrible. Though I have switched to Keto and fasting when I am made to go to work it is VERY DIFFICULT to find food that doesn't have sugar in it. And even if I eat perfectly the cost of this way of eating hits me in my pocket book and taxes the health care disaster is going to destroy this country. And NO ONE CARES. I take a star off because they insist on interviewing some of the people who put these policies into place and not taking them to task for it.. Bill Clinton? It was absolutely under him that big AG started getting people to eat sugar.
Review of Fed Up
