FED UP Movie

Whenever I take a phone order for Plan Z, I tell the new client that at least 60% of the value of the diet comes from the education you receive in the manual and through the daily e-mails and links to various videos we have found for you.

Fed Up rounds up the usual suspects to do short snippets on the evils of sugar and the problems in our food supply. There’s Gary Taubes, Kelly Brownell, Robert Lustig, Mark Hyman, former FDA commissioner David Kessler, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and many more. As a client, we have already introduced you to most of these characters.

If you’ve been following your Plan Z Diet Coaching and watching the videos we link you to, then you won’t need to see the movie unless you want to get a new dose of anger.

Still, if you want an entertaining, educational dose of righteous indignation, then you may want to watch Fed Up at a theater near you or download it from Netflix.

The film follows a few overweight children who are trying to lose weight using the conventional wisdom of eating less and exercising more. It is painful to watch one very overweight young girl tries swimming and working out to no avail.

The problem: the food they are eating at home and at school.

The parents of these overweight children are buying “healthy” low-fat food for them. Of course, since fat doesn’t make you fat and carbohydrates do, these fat kids keep gaining. The misinformed parents think low-fat cereal and skim milk will help their kids lose weight.  Then, there’s one mom who switches from Hot Pockets to Lite Hot Pockets.

Fed Up speaks to the tremendous amount of misinformation in the market place.This statement is from their website:

Once you see Fed Up and learn the truth about sugar, we hope you get as Fed Up as we are with the state of our food environment. We are facing the biggest public health crisis of our time and the future of our nation depends on us taking action in our homes, schools, communities and workplaces.

Fed Up vilifies sugar. It drives home the case that excess sugar in our blood stream is the reason for the “obesity crisis.” At the end of the film, audience members are urged to do the 10-Day Sugar Elimination Challenge and document their experience through social media.

That’s a solid start.