Fed Up!

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1. Facts that you are surprised by, think important, or are suspicious of.;

2. Questions raised by the movie;

3. Claims or thesis that the movie's documentary evidence seems to support.

Notes for "Fed Up!"

• Challenging the Diet/Exercise Paradigm -- "energy balance" is a false theory because calories have different effects depending upon the food.

• Big Sugar Funding Scandals - Nestle describes an early version of this, but there was a more recent scandal involving many "professors" paid collectively $50 million.

• 1977 Dietary Guidelines Story

• can't say eat less, can't target any foods directly.
• Low fat movement correlates with increase in sugar in industrial food. 600,000 food products 80% with added sugar
• Glycemic response. Insulin a fat storage hormone. Also loss of neural signal that you are "full"

• HFCS - fruit juice as good as Coke.

• David Kessler -- food addiction theory - ubiquity of sugar in the culture and media
• WHO TRS 916 - study adocates no more than 10% of calories from sugar. US heavy handed response, threats withold funding. Industry wanted 25%. Result: No agreed level on US product nutrition panels.

• Obama "Let's Move Campaign" -- coopted by industry into an exercise program. Can't say processed food is a big part of the problem.

• Dept of Ag conflict of interest: promoting production and promoting good diets.

• The Great Cheese Story (50:26)

• School Lunches Story -- After decline of Fed funding for school lunch program, most schools make contracts with fast food providers. Pizza becomes a vegetable!

• Tofi -- Thin people can be "obese"

• Tobacco / Food Industry Analogy Story -- soda is the cigarette of the 21st century.

• Real Food / Fake Food

• Facts

• Sugar is 8 times more addictive than cocaine
• Nutrition facts does not provide the percent of sugar that contributes to your daily intake of sugar
• Dailey intake of sugar had doubled since 1977
• In 1980 there were 0 cases of type II diabetes in children, in 2010 is was 57,638
• Gym and oversight people in America doubled at the same time
• Kids by 2-3 years old can start recognizing brands
• Weight lose surgeries have increase 5 times in the past few years

• Conclusions

• Private profit and interests outweighs public health
• Soda is the cigarette industry of the 21st century
• Eat less. Exercise more." will not cure obesity