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by BSousa 4089 days ago
I'm on the opposite camp and think Fed Up is not a good movie to watch and seems the author (Kuric I think) had a bone to grind mostly with the fast food and shitty food industry.

I remember a scene about a mother going to the store, and buying 'light' oreos/chips/other stuff, and giving that to their kids instead of the regular ones to their kids and then complaining he didn't lose weight and taking as a conclusion that 'dieting' and 'exercise' doesn't really work. Never considered that maybe a carrot stick or an apple would be better, she would just buy diet soda/cookies/chips.
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riffraff 4089 days ago
that is way I said that the movie has a clear agenda, but what you point out is exactly what she said is one of the problems:people believe that they can buy "light" stuff and that will be ok when it's in fact worse than non-light.

This is very much the same as for cigarettes, and why the "light" label on those has been banned for years.

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BSousa 4089 days ago
I watched it a few months ago so I maybe confused, but wasn't one of the main ideas the movie tried expose is that "move more, eat less" didn't work? I may be confused, but I think she spent a good part of the movie trying to explain why that didn't work by using cases like the 'light' food family for example.
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riffraff 4089 days ago
yes, the movie makes a big deal of the fact that "just be more active" is not enough, and I agree with you that she seems to push it too hard.

But she made it in relation to the fact that for some categories (i.e. the US has had a constant increase in obesity for kids ages 2-5 which are not naturally not "sitting all day" types) moving more is not enough, and I felt the underlying points are still valid (school food is crap, adults are unable to understand what "healthy food", that "eat healthy" is not "eat less" etc).

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