I watched this in hopes of helping me not walk to Rite Aid at 2am for my usual basket of Starburst/peanut M&Ms/airheads/kit kat/skittles/sour skittles. According to this movie sugar is 8x more addictive than cocain. I 100% agree.
Movie was good, informative, and really sad. I was also dying watching these big Kids eat cereal so much because that's their healthy food. No its not! That's just as bad! Luckily the movie covered that.
Also, I did manage to go through the night without cracking and going to to rite aid...so I'd say this bad boy was a complete success. One full day without eating candy! Wahoo! Here comes day two.....
Pro regulation and anti-corporate movie. Liked it for the first hour, then got preachy which is why I gave it a five instead of one.
Eye-opening documentry, will change they way you eat ,how you buy and how you live ,totally recommended
Doesn't say much (word count)
Still a great documentary that shaped my way I view food. In the past year, I've lost 40 pounds thanks to motivation from this eye-opening movie. Whether it be effective for you or not, it's still worthy of checking out. Well put together with plenty of interesting interviews and well documented verifiable research. Some people will argue the whole "Calories-In Calories-Out" debate, but I say, this movie still delivers a hopeful and positive message.
Very very very very good!
I found this infuriating. And not because it got me fired up against the food industry but because it's an infuriating documentary. The message I took away from this was 'It's not your fault if you are overweight, it's the food industries fault for making unhealthy food'.
This should really be "Fed up: Food Industry fattens their wallets from American stupidity".
If you want to put whatever the heck you want in your mouth then know what you are putting in there.
Review by EmeliaBlockedParent2015-10-21T21:49:29Z
Got this reccomended by a fellow psychology student in my health psychology class. Must say, it was quite emotional, sad, frustrating, and I got mad at some of the people trying to defend the food industry. It's not okay to only give kids hamburger, fries and pizzas for lunch with a coke/pepsi on the side. It's so not okay.
I'm glad about Mrs. Obama's initiative, sadly changing a pizza into a "vegetable" isn't good. At all. Pizza's are not healthy. Fries also aren't normal, healthy "potatoes". They're greasy, fat, and bad for the body in the long run if you eat it every day at school.
Ugh what an industry. I feel so privileged that I got to grow up in a Country where this is not what they served me when I was in school. Sadly, they didn't serve much school food at all, we had to bring from home. Though the notion of making food myself, packing my own lunch and knowing what I'm putting into my body, I got that knowledge way young. I actually enjoyed making the lunch I was bringing to school. I get the echonomy for many might not be good enough for this in America, and it's "easier" to just let kids eat what the school gives them. Though we all KNOW. IT. IS. BAD. Though trying to stand up to big corporations, NOT easy.
Everyone should watch some type of documentary about a nations health, one doesn't even need to live in America to watch this. There is so much knowledge to be taken out of such a movie, that it's NOT JUST "eat less, exercise more", it's so much more complicated than that. Maybe get rid of some of the old stereotypes about people with fat on their bodies. It sickens me that some people value people who are fat lower, than those who have a more (BMI)normal or muscular body. Even some of us praise the skinny people, those who are seriously on the verge to starvation. Starving oneself to obtain an ideal image of beauty is not good.
Watching movies like these makes me think so much. If you're a fellow student of human behaviour or if you're just curious about what food can do to your body, watch this. I'm so FED UP, and you'll be fed up too.