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Modern Monsters A trailer for the collapse of the United States under its own obesity during the first half of the 21st century, Fed Up is a nightmare. Produced and voiced over by Katie Couric, this documentary is serious investigative work, crammed with interviews of politicians (including Bill Clinton), a few representatives of the food industry, scientists and obese teenagers who sure are the most distraught of the lot, considering they are the victims of a deeply sick system who has conditioned them to crave for sugar since they were toddlers. Feeling like a dystopian movie? Look no further, the future is happening right now.Four facts will help you measure up what's at stake here:Sugar is eight times as addictive as cocaine. There are for the first time in history more obese people than starving people on the planet. After intense lobbying from Schwan, a corporation producing 70% of industrial pizza consumed in the US, it was made official in 2012 that pizza was indeed a vegetable. 51% of the US population is either obese or TOFI 'Thin Outside, Fat Inside", meaning they present the same metabolic symptoms than obese people, namely diabetes and an excessive fat ratio. What happened to the tobacco industry at the end of the 20th century might be a glimmer of hope for those who revolt at the idea of their children being enslaved by the Sugar Lobby to eat always more; if nothing is done 95% of the US population will be overweight in the space of a generation. And it won't stop here, as the middle East and North Africa face the same problem."In truth I had no idea what the truth was", concludes one of the obese teenagers, demonstrating how solipsistic is a system in which a government subsidises an industry while launching programmes to lessen the impact said industry has on public health. These acrobatics have lasted for the last 40 years, and it's a matter of time before the balls come tumbling down. Scarier than any horror movie, Fed Up makes one want to rage against the machine. But no one was fat in The Matrix, right?

RYAN Read, "It Starts with Food"!I just watched this and I will admit it was very informative. I am lucky to be married to someone who has a very solid understanding of healthy eating. Because of my wife, and years of reading Mens Health, I know a lot of things about the food I choose to eat that the people in this documentary and honestly most people do not. The fact that sugar is in just about everything these days and that calories are very different from food to food. It was difficult watching the people thinking they were making good choices and eating healthy with the cereals and "low calorie" low fat" food" that is ultimately full of sugar.I do give the filmmakers credit for highlighting the real culprit of fat and disease in the large consumption of sugar. What I wish they would have done is stop making every fat person some type of victim of government failure. While the government could probably be doing something better lets be honest, the government never will. The reality is that there is too much money and power in the food industry which is okay as far as I am concerned. The way to stop "Big Food", is to stop buying it. People need to start taking some personal responsibility for themselves. Harsh, I know, and a viewpoint that was criticized throughout the movie but come on. There are endless resources available to everyone these days. Anyone can go to a public library and for free use the internet to learn about healthy eating or for free check out a book. I recommend, again, It Starts with Food. All you need to do is educate yourself just a little bit. We need to stop waiting for other people to solve our problems all the time. The issue of childhood obesity is a big one and I fully understand the vulnerability of kids with advertising and sugary foods. But we as parents have the ability to make the correct choices for ourselves and our families. Sugar filled foods are just cheap and easy, so people stock up and chow down. I could only give five stars because although very informative and eye opening, this documentary fell back on such a typical expose format, blaming someone else. Imagine what would happen to childhood obesity if we stopped blaming the government, and "Big Food", and thought for ourselves just a little bit. When we see our children getting fat and being made fun of, rather then calling out the food companies and assuring ourselves that it's not our fault, we took control of the situation and changed our lifestyle. Educated ourselves and our children so that moving forward they had the power to make better decisions and truly understand the food they eat. We did it with tobacco. Private groups are telling us all the time what tobacco does and fewer people smoke these days. When someone does smoke, and gets sick, popular culture holds them responsible because they knew the dangers.I know this is a concise response to a complex issue but rather then be offended by it, try it. Take control. Detox. Drink water!

dallasryan This is a documentary that shows the truth about our obesity epidemic, world wide. It's sugar. Most of us have never realized this because the food industry has had our eyes on the pinstripes, they've had our attention on the other ingredients, misleading us so we wouldn't realize what the real problem was. It's sickening how all these private profit and special interest groups operate. It's universal with these groups too. It reminds me of that quote from Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises, "You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."A revolution could be right around the corner, you never know. One person can't be the change, but many can be the change and how that happens is hearing the truth and how the truth gets out to the masses is through well informed documentaries such as this one. Once masses of people start hearing the truth and getting sick to their stomachs on how much we're tricked, raped and lied to by these private profit, special interests groups, then that's where the change begins. With the masses. Some might start petitions, some might start blogs or Social Media groups, some might do this or that, but that's where the change starts. This documentary also shows where the fault is in our system as a whole. There needs to be a change in congress, the House of Representatives, etc. It's documentaries like this that start the change. We all need to do our part someway, somehow, to be the change.

paintbynight Great documentary and I agree with many points but this is a true infiltration film of the now current liberal media. I don't think they ever interviewed one conservative/republican. The government and big business do have a major part in the epidemic but NOWHERE do they ever address the lack of impulse control that human nature is now nurturing. While very informative of what many of us already know( for the majority of this doc), they end this with 5 minutes of the obvious...MAKE YOUR OWWN FOOD at HOME! Yet the majority of this film is the blame game or the lack of 'Morality' of the advertiser while totally denying the allowance of social 'free will' to which the leftists' are so usually in favor of. It's a great and enlightening film about how big business and political hypocrisy really play a big part in a majority of human priorities and decision making. I thank the gods for giving me parents who taught me rational thought.