America Is Fed Up According to the food-industry documentary Fed Up, sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine (Soechtig, 2014). This documentary is all about what is put into America’s food and why this nation is so unhealthy. The food-industry may have made foods less fatty with fewer calories but they are also adding ingredients in order to make the food still desirable to eat. What caught my attention was that our daily sugar intake should only be 4-6 teaspoons of sugar but Americans on average are taking in about 41 teaspoons a day. This is a huge problem, literally. The reason for the obesity epidemic in the United States is because the food industry is not only adding more sugar than needed to foods but not adding fiber as well in order to balance it out.
Is it true that it is everyone else’s fault that they are overweight because they are not eating right and exercising? Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig teamed up to find the real reason as to why our world is getting sicker (Gianatasio, 2014). Couric “is an award winning journalist and TV personality, well-known cancer advocate, documentary film producer and New York Times bestselling author of The Best Advice I …show more content…
When presenting her argument in the film Fed Up Couric comes off as concerned as her audience should be. She takes a stand and asks the difficult questions and demonizes the food industry unlike Michele Obama has done in her Lets Move campaign. Katie acknowledges that exercise and eating right is important in order to stay healthy but points out that all of sugar that is being put in the so called “healthy” and “natural” is what is making people sick and unable to lose weight. It is obvious by the tone in Katie’s voice as she narrates this film that she is just as upset as everyone else is and that something needs to be done and she is
Is it true that it is everyone else’s fault that they are overweight because they are not eating right and exercising? Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig teamed up to find the real reason as to why our world is getting sicker (Gianatasio, 2014). Couric “is an award winning journalist and TV personality, well-known cancer advocate, documentary film producer and New York Times bestselling author of The Best Advice I …show more content…
When presenting her argument in the film Fed Up Couric comes off as concerned as her audience should be. She takes a stand and asks the difficult questions and demonizes the food industry unlike Michele Obama has done in her Lets Move campaign. Katie acknowledges that exercise and eating right is important in order to stay healthy but points out that all of sugar that is being put in the so called “healthy” and “natural” is what is making people sick and unable to lose weight. It is obvious by the tone in Katie’s voice as she narrates this film that she is just as upset as everyone else is and that something needs to be done and she is