Fed Up: Directed by Stephanie Soechtig. With Katie Couric, Bill Clinton, Michael Pollan, Michael Bloomberg. An examination of America's obesity epidemic and the food industry's role in aggravating it.
Fed Up has a fire in its belly to change things. Naïve? Maybe. So what. I say, Godspeed. Here is something rare at the multiplex: a movie that matters. 70 Geoff Berkshire VarietyGeoff Berkshire A formulaic and functional documentary that nevertheless proves effective at getting the message...
I'm asking this question because, if you are, and if you do, you can pretty much skip the movie "Fed Up," because Frampton's song "White Sugar," the chorus of which condemns the titular substance as "evil as the day you were born" sums up the message of the new documentary "Fed...
The people of Shikarpur and Jacobabad have fed up with prolonged power break down during the Holy month of Ramadan and expressed their happiness when dusty winds knocked at their doors. Light rain and dusty winds turns weather pleasant Here are two telling facts from Fed Up, a documentary on...
What makes us buy food? Taste. The reason the obesity rates are skyrocketing has to do with the additives – mostly sugar – that these mega-corps are adding to give their food taste. It’s all exposed nicely in the new documentary, “Fed Up.”...
2014 Documentary 1 h 35 min English audio CC Unrated Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry—aided by the U.S. government—to mislead and confuse...
From left: "Fed Up" director Stephanie Soechtig, executive producers Laurie David and Katie Couric, and Dr. Mark Hyman, in New York City, May 1, 2014.Rob Kim/Getty Images Katie Couric, who narrates the documentary (which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival), said that during her years...
May 14, 2014 An accessible documentary that chronicles the obesity problem. Footage of children struggling with their weight is intercut with various scientific and political machinations. A variety of interview subjects, including some big names, spice things up. The film's conclusion is essentially...
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In true documentary fashion, we follow three subjects on a personal journey; in this case it’s three children battling obesity. Their social lives are nearly non-existent as they blame their insecurities on their weight. Throughout the film , we not only become invested in the welfare of th...