Obesity is a rapid growing epidemic in American. The makers of the documentary Fed Up, producer Stephanie Soechtig and narrator Katie Couric, set out to find the truth behind food and the things that the food industry does not want you to see. The documentary states that the food industry is corrupt and is cause of the obesity epidemic in America. The film starts out with opening credits and news clips playing in the intro. The news clips are saying that obesity is a growing fast, obesity is spreading around the world, and obesity in kids has grown from one in twenty to one in five kids. The documentary says that they have been covering the problem and solution for over thirty years. The film shows many clips of television shows covering the subject of obesity. The film questions how if we were cutting fats and calories out of our food products, how is it possible that we are getting bigger? The film suggests what if the solutions they have come up with were not right and their whole approach to the epidemic has been dead wrong. Fed up shows how the first dietary guidelines issued by the United States government overlooks the role of dietary sugar in increasing obesity.
The film then begins with a mom asking her son why he doesn’t eat his vegetables. The parents …show more content…
The quality of the film makers reasoning was poor they blamed advertising, television, and the food industry for obesity. Their arguments were supported by evidence they used statistics and advertisements to show how they influence people to eat unhealthy. They showed many children who are eating unhealthy and are obese because of the lack of food choices at schools. I do not think their arguments were persuasive because the food industry does not make people obese. These are children they cannot pick what foods they want to eat freely or shouldn’t be able to it should be up to the parents. They are slightly persuasive when they talk about school lunches being
The film then begins with a mom asking her son why he doesn’t eat his vegetables. The parents …show more content…
The quality of the film makers reasoning was poor they blamed advertising, television, and the food industry for obesity. Their arguments were supported by evidence they used statistics and advertisements to show how they influence people to eat unhealthy. They showed many children who are eating unhealthy and are obese because of the lack of food choices at schools. I do not think their arguments were persuasive because the food industry does not make people obese. These are children they cannot pick what foods they want to eat freely or shouldn’t be able to it should be up to the parents. They are slightly persuasive when they talk about school lunches being