Fed Up Documentary

In the “Fed Up” documentary, the film makes claims against solutions that are said to solve the skyrocket of obesity amongst adults and children worldwide. It is claimed that there’s a greater unknown issue of obesity than what nutritionists in the past and the food industry won’t come to tell. The film also makes counterarguments against those that try to protect the food industry from being deprived of the many people they feed in exchange for money; the problem of obesity is not seen as a problem the food industry should solve, but the amount of business they’d be losing due to scientists and food specialists claiming that obesity is practically their fault. Although the food industry persistently tries to fight back, the claims in this

First example is the simple, common-sensual solution of “eating less and exercising more”, which is concluded by Dr. Jean Mayer who proved the solution with an experiment between two lab mice; the larger mouse ate the same amount as the smaller one, yet was the first of the two to get tired while exercising. It was seen that those who choose not to eat less and exercise more bring the problem of uncontrollable weight gain are brought upon themselves. However, the documentary provides scientific proof of how Insulin, a digestive hormone, affects the body when breaking down the larger amounts of sugar being consumed. Sugar is turned into fat and when there are greater amounts of sugar, the more Insulin there is being produced. “Insulin blocks signals to the brain that tell it a person’s stomach is full. Therefore, the body is convinced the person is still hungry, causing them to eat more.” When the body is convinced it’s starving, there are more symptoms of fatigue and laziness which are evident with obese people. Because more sugar was added to food products for better taste due to reducing fat, this issue increased causing scientists and nutritionists to put the food industry at