Fed Up (2014) on Netflix
PG20141h 32mDocumentary
Federal dietary guidelines issued thirty years ago overlooked sugar. Obesity has climbed across the United States, and families dealing with weight and diabetes are followed over several years.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.7/1012,729 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Dietary sugar went largely unmentioned in the first federal dietary guidelines, issued thirty years earlier. Those guidelines effectively allowed unlimited sugar to be added to the foods children ate. Consumption rose, obesity rates climbed, and children grew up heavier than their parents, facing impaired health and shorter lives. Evidence in the film points to sugar in processed foods as an overlooked cause of the obesity epidemic in the United States. Families living with obesity and diabetes are followed for more than two years, and attempts by parents, schools, states and Congress to put healthier food in front of children run into sugar industry interests with deep lobbying resources.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fed Up (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The documentary was criticized by physicians and scientists as misrepresenting scientific evidence; it claims one soda a day raises a child's chance of becoming obese by 60 percent, but the authors of the study behind that figure say they cannot prove the causality the film asserts, only an association.
- Director Stephanie Soechtig spent more than two years during the making of the film following families struggling with obesity, diabetes and other health issues.
