Fed Up Documentary

videonasties

I went to the movies last week and saw the documentary 'Fed Up', which is about the obesity crisis and the food industry. Has anyone else gone out to see this documentary, and if so, what did you think?

Leonidas_meets_Spartacus

Pretty good, makes sense for most part.

dollforlife

I haven't seen that one. Is this an independent film? When did it release? I'm wondering if I still have time to try and find it. I have seen most of the other ones on Netflix like Food Inc, Forks over Knives , Hungry for Change and Vegucated. Netflix has a plethora of different documentaries a lot of them based on the food industry, obesity, chronic illness that stems from genetically modified food and the like.

videonasties

Yeah, it's an independent film. It was released like three weeks ago, I do believe.

I looooooove me some Netflix documentaries too! Haha

SharonCMach

Heard about it & purchased from Amazon last week & watched it with my sister this past Sunday. We both enjoyed it. What an eye opener!! Everyone should see this film & it should be shown in school to all the kids as well. It will make you want to eat healthy.

eric_sg61

http://www.foodinsight.org/FedUp-review
http://sweetenerstudies.com/sites/default/files/resources/files/Scientific-Review-of-Lustigs-Fat-Chance.pdf

Surfrider

Not sure how you can take that foodinsight.org review very serious when these are the financial supporters of that organization:

(Notice the overwhelming majority are the very companies this documentary are calling out)

Abbott Nutrition
Ajinomoto North America, Inc.
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
Bayer CropScience LP
Cargill, Incorporated
The Coca-Cola Company
Compass Group
The Dannon Company, Inc.
Dow AgroSciences, LLC
Dr Pepper Snapple Group
DSM Nutritional Products, Inc.
DuPont
Elanco
Ferrero USA
General Mills, Inc.
Hillshire Brands Company
The Hershey Company
H.J. Heinz Company
The J.M. Smucker Company
J.R. Simplot Company
Kellogg
Kraft Foods
Mars, Incorporated
McCormick & Company, Inc.
McDonald’s Corporation
McNeil Nutritionals
Mead Johnson Nutrition
Mondelēz International, Inc.
Monsanto Company
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Red Bull North America
StarKist
Tate & Lyle
Unilever
Yum! Brands
Zoetis

eric_sg61

Not sure how you can take that foodinsight.org review very serious when these are the financial supporters of that organization:

(Notice the overwhelming majority are the very companies this documentary are calling out)

Abbott Nutrition
Ajinomoto North America, Inc.
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
Bayer CropScience LP
Cargill, Incorporated
The Coca-Cola Company
Compass Group
The Dannon Company, Inc.
Dow AgroSciences, LLC
Dr Pepper Snapple Group
DSM Nutritional Products, Inc.
DuPont
Elanco
Ferrero USA
General Mills, Inc.
Hillshire Brands Company
The Hershey Company
H.J. Heinz Company
The J.M. Smucker Company
J.R. Simplot Company
Kellogg
Kraft Foods
Mars, Incorporated
McCormick & Company, Inc.
McDonald’s Corporation
McNeil Nutritionals
Mead Johnson Nutrition
Mondelēz International, Inc.
Monsanto Company
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Red Bull North America
StarKist
Tate & Lyle
Unilever
Yum! Brands
Zoetis

I am not a conspiracy theorist who takes nutritional advice from a sensationalist documentary, and Lustig claims have been called in to question by numerous sources.
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

tquill

Not sure how you can take that foodinsight.org review very serious when these are the financial supporters of that organization:

(Notice the overwhelming majority are the very companies this documentary are calling out)

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

padi82

This film changed my thinking on sugar and refined foods. For the first time in my life I'm not struggling with food cravings and I am steadily losing weight. I also read Fat Chance, by Dr. Robert Lustig, an excellent and scientifically backed explanation why sugar wrecks havoc on our western diet. As cookbook author Mark Bittman explained, government and the big food companies don't push a whole foods diet because there is no money in it. The money is made with cheap manufacturing labor, chemical engineering of refined foods and sugar.