Fed Up
The film that I have reviewed is Fed Up, this is a documentary by Stephanie Soechting and executive producers by Katie Couric and Laurie David, Couric also narrated the film. This film talks about the corruption in the food industry, and how is more important to make money than to provide healthy products for us and our kids and it explains that because of the corruption there's an obesity epidemic in America. They are willing to put our health and the health of our loved ones in jeopardy to make money. These companies preferred to make new products that are label, sugar-free, fat-free, diet soda instead of removing their products from the shelves of grocery stores. This film explains the link between sugar consumption and obesity. …show more content…
The film also discusses how we see and think about food and exercise is wrong, Couric says that “many people think that kids are overweight for two reasons, a lack of exercise and increased appetites.” The three major concepts that I will be talking about are Type 2 Diabetes, Healthy food, and nutrition facts also an active lifestyle.
When we were discussing chapter three we learn about Type 2 Diabetes and how we can lower our chances of developing this chronic illness. We discussed how eating a diet high in added sugars increases our risk of developing diabetes, we also learn that there's evidence which links sugar intakes with obesity. This documentary focuses on obesity and diabetes it explains that obesity 30 years ago was not an issue but 30 years later it has become an epidemic. The obesity epidemic is not only affecting people from the United States it has become a worldwide problem which is the same case for Type 2 Diabetes. The film talks about how sugars have different names about 56 in total, some of them we discussed in the reading from the book, for example, corn syrup and fructose are very common in
The film that I have reviewed is Fed Up, this is a documentary by Stephanie Soechting and executive producers by Katie Couric and Laurie David, Couric also narrated the film. This film talks about the corruption in the food industry, and how is more important to make money than to provide healthy products for us and our kids and it explains that because of the corruption there's an obesity epidemic in America. They are willing to put our health and the health of our loved ones in jeopardy to make money. These companies preferred to make new products that are label, sugar-free, fat-free, diet soda instead of removing their products from the shelves of grocery stores. This film explains the link between sugar consumption and obesity. …show more content…
The film also discusses how we see and think about food and exercise is wrong, Couric says that “many people think that kids are overweight for two reasons, a lack of exercise and increased appetites.” The three major concepts that I will be talking about are Type 2 Diabetes, Healthy food, and nutrition facts also an active lifestyle.
When we were discussing chapter three we learn about Type 2 Diabetes and how we can lower our chances of developing this chronic illness. We discussed how eating a diet high in added sugars increases our risk of developing diabetes, we also learn that there's evidence which links sugar intakes with obesity. This documentary focuses on obesity and diabetes it explains that obesity 30 years ago was not an issue but 30 years later it has become an epidemic. The obesity epidemic is not only affecting people from the United States it has become a worldwide problem which is the same case for Type 2 Diabetes. The film talks about how sugars have different names about 56 in total, some of them we discussed in the reading from the book, for example, corn syrup and fructose are very common in