Fed Up Documentary Summary

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The Documentary “Fed Up” I would say has a main claim that the main reason for weight gain today is not because people don’t exercise or just like to eat too much, the reason they claim is that the food industry is behind the current obesity rate and its continuing rise.
This can be seen a major way when the video brings up an event where the WHO had sent out a recommendation in a report that stated that people should not have their daily intake of sugar consist of more than 10% of their daily calories. This was followed by the american food industry giving major push pack to the report and pulling some strings behind the scenes threatening that the U.S.would not send its annual donation to WHO if they didn’t adjust the report. So not long after WHO had released its initial report saying no more the 10% of your calories being sugar it was changed to say no more than 25% sugar calories.This is a difference of 2.5, a big impact …show more content…
This drives obesity rates up with more kids eating fat food more often and drives up the food industries profit. The food industry could raise the question that the schools have healthier options available to them at school, I and most likely the makers of the documentary would respond with most children would never choose vegetables over something sweet or fat like a candy bar when both are options. The food industry could also say how but how is this a problem when most schools need us to make lunch cheap? I would say the the issue has reached the point where schools lunches have become more to serve the food industries then it is to serve students with proper nutritional meals, meaning these school lunches only serve to drive food industry profits up and boost obesity in
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