I'm afraid that, once again, some have missed the point. I was simply posting this as a reply to those who kept saying my original post on the documentary FED UP was
negative and that
I was negative when all I was doing was commenting on a recent Sundance Film documentary that we had seen on the Katie Couric Show............nothing really new as I've known for decades that SUGAR and other flavor enhancers, additives, etc. were in our foods...............as does everyone else trying to follow their own healthy version of eating .
Remember the movie KING CORN??? That was an eye opener for sure (a few years back). CORN SYRUP is a huge additive in most processed foods.
This wasn't about who likes Katie or not........I was showing that she is not perceived as a negative person (whether or not her bubbly upbeat always happy persona is real or phony, is not the question here)........she was the one showcasing FED UP which is about the hidden and not so hidden SUGAR in our foods and the obesity epidemic in the U.S. esp. among children. It wasn't a negative presentation......just the facts.
When we went to school in the 1950's, 1960's we can't remember a single obese child. Look around nowadays. But, back then, who had the luxury of fast food, drive by windows, pickup fast food places. Food back then was cooked from scratch from wholesome ingredients that were natural. The basic food groups. Natural foods and ingredients. Whole foods.
Not chemicals and additives.
This documentary is about SUGAR. My thoughts were a spinoff from a thread about how long might some people live into old age......when I read that "the next generation might live longer, but would live sicker".........I actually knew what that meant.
Someone said I was being negative when in reality I was "quoting" what I had read......the way some youth eat today, not at the family table, but via a drive up window, they may live LONGER due to a myriad of pharmaceuticals but they will also live sicker. So, what comes first..............the chicken or the egg. As long as they have a little pill for every ill, we can eat whatever we want?
No one can be a total purist or stoic re food. All the enjoyment would be diminished, but at least being aware of what is in our foods is NOT A CRIME and neither is it NEGATIVE.
"FED UP" is the film the food industry doesn't want you to see." That is the tag line for the new documentary film FED UP from Peobody award-winning broadcast journalist
Katie Couric and Oscar-winning producer Laurie David and that describes how they feel about the government's part in the spread of the global epidemic of childhood obesity!
And for good reason! FED UP presents an eye-opening look on the connection between the rise of kids being diagnosed with diabetes and the dangerous increase of
sugar and
sweeteners being added to ingredients in processed foods.
Television journalist Katie Couric narrates a newly released film identifying sugar as the main culprit for the majority of health problems in the United States. The documentary, created by the makers of "An Inconvenient Truth," compares the food industry to the tobacco industry and encourages Americans to push for reforms.
With the slogan "Congress Says Pizza Is a Vegetable" on one of its posters,
Fed Up focuses on the fate of America’s children as they deal with an epidemic of obesity related diseases. According to the film, the current generation of children is expected to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.
Both Rolling Stone magazine and Roger Ebert gave it critical reviews, while still calling it ‘a movie that matters’ and is ‘compelling’. Many critics rate the documentary high however because of the subject matter.
Fed Up attempts to address many of the issues surrounding America’s obesity epidemic, including programs aimed at increasing activity, corn syrup regulation, soda consumption, diet food, and sugar substitutes.
Additionally it ties the obesity problem to a failure in government regulation and encourages Americans to push for change.
It even includes former president, Bill Clinton commenting on the popularity of high fructose corn syrup saying: "I don’t think high-fructose corn syrup is a good use of corn."
For many Americans,
Fed Up introduces a concept that is new to them- the idea that obesity could be caused by excessive sugar intake.
Why are Americans so fat? That’s a question explored in a new documentary called "Fed Up."
Executive producer and narrator Katie Couric discussed the problem with sugar on tonight’s "O’Reilly Factor."
Couric said 80 percent of products in the grocery store have added sugar. She also noted that some countries are restricting marketing of sugary foods to kids.
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FROM ROLLING STONE:
May 9, 2014 12:00 PM ET
The latest documentary to tackle the tangle of American food politics,
Fed Up focuses its lens on one specific aspect of the you-are-what-you-eat battle: childhood obesity rates. Directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric and Laurie David
(An Inconvenient Truth), the film follows four overweight teens to their doctor's appointments, sports practices, and home kitchens, in an attempt to answer the question of why these children can't seem to lose weight.
Is 'Fed Up' the Next 'Inconvenient Truth and Other Sundance 2014 Questions
"The solution is eating real food and cooking it yourself, because you would never put the amount of salt or sugar in that corporations do," says David.
"The majority of the food a lot of people are eating are made by strangers who don't have your health at the forefront of your mind."
Armed with flip cameras, the subjects record video diaries, offering a window into their emotional, as well as physical, struggle with obesity. With interviews from former President Bill Clinton,
Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan, and leading doctors and researchers, the film argues that the sugar added to processed foods is largely to blame for rising obesity rates.
(Also in the form of CORN SYRUP)..........
As consumers, we need to know what is in our foods.
Just found out the other day that Chobani Greek Yoghurt uses G.M.O....