Fed Up Documentary Analysis

The movie Fed Up is a documentary film directed and produced by Stephanie Soechtig, who has directed and produced Under the Gun and Tapped which are two other documentaries. The film, Fed Up, focuses on the causes of obesity in the United States and how the government has failed to stop the food industry from putting extra sugar in their products. The beginning of the film opens with different warnings from doctors and The Journal of the American Medical Association about an epidemic that has seem to happen overnight. The epidemic mentioned would be the attack of sugar on products. Some of the reasons sugar has been labeled as an epidemic would be because around 80 percent of all processed foods in grocery stores have added sugar that have …show more content…
However there is one voice that stands out the most and that would be a man’s voice that stated, “Kids are obese for two reasons. They have voracious appetites and they don’t exercise enough.” After that statement, Dr. Mark Hyman came on to the screen to tell people that it seemed that the food industry was sending the message that it was the consumers fault that they were fat and they just needed to exercise more and eat less. The saying “eat less exercise more” may not be the answer that everyone believes it to be, it seems that for more than a century people believed this saying was the answer to the epidemic in America. Especially, during the late 1980’s until the early 2000’s while everyone was joining gyms and trying to be fit the rate for obesity also went up. So the food industry should not be allowed to say that it is the consumers fault for being overweight or …show more content…
There is a part early in the film that Brady Kluge, the first kid introduced, says that someone told him that “Fat people were made to be fat.” When he said this it seem to be a horrible thing to tell someone. When I first watched the documentary in class I did not pay attention to the conversations, but when I re-watched the documentary I paid closer attention to the conversations and when I heard that quote again it broke my heart. This children and their families were trying to do everything from counting calories to spending more money to buy healthier foods. This seemed to help a little but all the kids said at one time in their interviews that they will lose some weight but then gain right back. This was really sad to hear. The food companies kept saying that it was the consumers fault that they were fat because they did not exercise