Fed Up Documentary Analysis

While growing up, children all across America were told, “Remember, it is better to start while you're young.” including me. Does this include starting off obese when we are younger too? Many more times than I possibly could have imagined I have seen an obese child. While watching the documentary Fed Up, couldn’t help but think to myself, “Has the world really changed so much throughout the time of my Grandparents.” I went and asked them if obesity even existed when they were my age. My grandpa’s response was, “Back there was the war to worry about. Kids worked on the farm before and after school. There was no time to go and get a burger whenever we felt like. Time was money and we didn’t have very much of either.” Ever since 1997, when George
Taste is more important than the health of the American people. Companies like Kellogs were told to make foods with less fat. Foods with less fat ‘taste like cardboard’ and don’t taste well at all. Sugar is added to help those foods taste palatable. American’s have doubled their intake of daily sugars. In Fed Up Wesley Randal was having his daily meal. He thought he was eating well. He was having 2.5 times more sugar that what is recommended for kids his age. When they told me that I never realized how much more sugars reduced fat products had. All this time that I have been trying to eat healthy, some of the products are just as bad as the normal ones. After watching Fed Up I realized how hard it really is to diet. To go completely sugar free would be an almost impossible task. Going sugar free works. Bradey Kluge and his family all lost over 30 pounds on a sugar free diet. At the end of the documentary it said, “Bradey gained all his weight back shortly after this was filmed.” Dieting is hard. The companies that work their way around all the acts that the government has passed to make more money have lost all approval from
T.O.F.I. means Thin on the Outside and Fat on the Inside. There are plenty of kids at my school alone who would fit into this category. They aren’t overly strong because those people don’t work on their muscles enough. Kids are targeted as future customers by food corporations. Companies know that nowadays kids watch TV more than ever. Commercials are the way to get though to them. Laws have even been passed to help lesson the effects of these commercials. At the time where kids watch TV the most, companies weren’t allowed to show their ads then. The food still go through to them (Fed Up). Fast food restaurants like McDonald’s were forced to offer fruits to help kids make good choices. In Huffington Post’s article “So This Is Why Children Are Craving That Fast Food Burger.” it says that “kids aren’t choosing healthier options instead of unhealthy ones — they’re finagling for both.” (n.p.) If kids are choosing both of these it just adds to the amount of sugars they have each day. Kids like Wesley gained more and more weight no matter what they tried because of things like this. I wish society would do more to help. No matter what anybody thinks, these kids are the future of America. Our country is third in the world in obesity and we continue to climb up that list. By 2050, 1/3 of all kids in america will have diabetes. When I was growing up diabetes were for the elderly folk that happen to have a few extra pounds.