Fed Up Essay

In the movie FED UP by Laurie David/Katie Couric, we take on a serious issue in the United States, it’s the rise of obesity in children. Our children, the future of our nation face deadly conditions and disease such as overweight, stroke, diabetes, cancers, high blood pressure. The cause of this is because the food industry pack a load of sugar in everything they sell, instead of fat. When you go to HEB or Walmart, you will see that almost every food is now advertised as low-fat or lite. Indeed there will be less fat, but packed with the stuff called high fructose corn syrup, or simply put sugar. Almost 80% of food in the market have added sugar. In facts, sugar is highly addictive, the craving induced is on par with drugs like cocaine and nicotine. Sugar makes every food taste a whole lot better, at the same time, it also the cause of obesity in children in the U.S. In the video there a lot of facts that has been throwing at viewers. As interesting such as why is a calorie is not a calorie. This emphasize the difference between food’s calories. Let’s say 100 calorie of veggies versus 100 calorie of sugary soda. They are the same amount of calorie, however, 100 calorie of veggies will likely to make our stomach full, and it does not work up our liver. When we consume 100 of coke, one hundred percent of the content will go straight to liver. It will get the liver worked up, and produce a lot of fat. The same concept will also apply when we compare the differences between 160 calorie in almonds and 160 calorie soda. When we take almonds into our body, it will make us full and it won’t

In exchange, these doctors have to cover up in their research article with lies, they will announce that sugary drinks has nothing to do with weight gain. But we all know that’s not the