Fed Up Documentary

videonasties
videonasties Posts: 22
edited November 7 in Chit-Chat
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?

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  • Leonidas_meets_Spartacus
    Leonidas_meets_Spartacus Posts: 6,198 Member
    Pretty good, makes sense for most part.
  • dollforlife
    dollforlife Posts: 41 Member
    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
    videonasties Posts: 22
    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
    SharonCMach Posts: 305 Member
    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. :smile:
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    http://www.foodinsight.org/FedUp-review
    http://sweetenerstudies.com/sites/default/files/resources/files/Scientific-Review-of-Lustigs-Fat-Chance.pdf
  • Surfrider
    Surfrider Posts: 364 Member
    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
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    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
    tquill Posts: 300 Member
    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
    padi82 Posts: 4 Member
    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.
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