Fed Up (2014)

As I saw the doc :Fed up,I would like also to take on the alcohol abuse problem. Read my novel:Opgroeien in Dalten.(Growing up in Dalten)Editor :Boxpress(Netherlands)In the Netherlands one million people have problems with alcohol.Among them 400000 are alcohols.Fifteen percent of our youth has a problem with alcohol.

The movie titled Fed Up is about the effects of sugar and its contribution to the worldwide obesity and type 2 diabetes pandemic, a situation so serious that children were beginning to get this disease, which was initially classified as adult onset diabetes. The movie does a good job of describing the politics of food and the complicity of the USDA with multi-national agribusiness/food companies, mostly revealed by Marion Nestle's, PhD in her Food Politics and Soda Politics. The movie breaks down in having revealed the evils of sugar, it failed to adequately discuss the alternatives to sugar. Just eating vegetables and fruits is an incomplete answer. This omission arises because there is eclectic group of scientist/doctors with conflicting view as to what constitutes a healthy diet. To that end, one needs to look at the cast of characters in this movie and those who are missing but should have been included.First and foremost there is First Lady Michele Obama with her "let's move" program, yet she does not want to "demonize" the food and beverage industries. Both Dr Nestle and Mrs. Obama seem to me to be proponents of the lipid hypothesis that saturated fat is bad promulgated by the 1977 McGovern Committee report. This has its roots Ancel Keys M.D. who was co director of the Framingham heart study. The other Co director, George V Mann, M.D. thinks, "This is the greatest public health scam perpetrated on the American public." Former President William Clinton pursues a vegan or perhaps lacto-vegan diet promulgated by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MDin his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease.Michael Pollan, in The Omnivore's Dilemma and Eat Real Food, Mark Hyman M.D. Robert Lustig's M.D. Fat Chance , Mark Hyman, M.D. and Gary Taube's Good Calories Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat all emphasize the importance of quality fats, both saturated and unsaturated from animals, properly raised, and plants. David Perlmutter, MD, not mentioned in this movie, in his Grain Brain notes primitive hunter-gatherers ate a ketogenic (high fat) diet. This is also confirmed in medical anthropologist Weston A. Price's DDS 1939 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.Gary Taubes presents good historical data in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was generally known one could eat all the meats, fats, vegetables dairy, and whole fruits desired so long as one avoided or strictly limited the consumption of starches (bread, potatoes, cereals, etc) and sugars By so doing, Lustig points out the hormone leptin, which tells one's body it can stop eating, would not be overwhelmed by the hormone insulin, which insists one must keep eating. Both Taubes and Lustig assert the calories in-calories out is a failed paradigm; it's not physics but biology. To push the matter into the absurd, if one over eats, even slightly, one ends up morbidly obese and if one under eats, even slightly, one ends up terribly emaciated!

This is a documentary that shows the truth about our obesity epidemic, world wide. It's sugar. Most of us have never realized this because the food industry has had our eyes on the pinstripes, they've had our attention on the other ingredients, misleading us so we wouldn't realize what the real problem was. It's sickening how all these private profit and special interest groups operate. It's universal with these groups too. It reminds me of that quote from Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises, "You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."A revolution could be right around the corner, you never know. One person can't be the change, but many can be the change and how that happens is hearing the truth and how the truth gets out to the masses is through well informed documentaries such as this one. Once masses of people start hearing the truth and getting sick to their stomachs on how much we're tricked, raped and lied to by these private profit, special interests groups, then that's where the change begins. With the masses. Some might start petitions, some might start blogs or Social Media groups, some might do this or that, but that's where the change starts. This documentary also shows where the fault is in our system as a whole. There needs to be a change in congress, the House of Representatives, etc. It's documentaries like this that start the change. We all need to do our part someway, somehow, to be the change.

Great documentary and I agree with many points but this is a true infiltration film of the now current liberal media. I don't think they ever interviewed one conservative/republican. The government and big business do have a major part in the epidemic but NOWHERE do they ever address the lack of impulse control that human nature is now nurturing. While very informative of what many of us already know( for the majority of this doc), they end this with 5 minutes of the obvious...MAKE YOUR OWWN FOOD at HOME! Yet the majority of this film is the blame game or the lack of 'Morality' of the advertiser while totally denying the allowance of social 'free will' to which the leftists' are so usually in favor of. It's a great and enlightening film about how big business and political hypocrisy really play a big part in a majority of human priorities and decision making. I thank the gods for giving me parents who taught me rational thought.