I found fault with some of the reasoning in this movie documentary, however despite that, it brings to light some important points. The star point of the movie is how it reveals the way that food product marketers have been shifting the blame for obesity to the consumer by claiming we aren't out there running off all these calories. They don't want to cut their sales and make less profit, so we're all supposed to spend countless hours in gyms and jogging to keep their stock holders rich. The fact is, the human body is so efficient, that it's almost impossible to burn calories like that, and we'd be out jogging for 5 hours a day. Nobody wants to live like that. I took issue with two points. First, the movie seems to suggest that the government can do any better than large corporations in fixing the obesity problem. I disagree. Governments can be just as corrupt and bribable as any corporation. Secondly, the analogy that (supposedly) governments were able to curb smoking (it's arguable if that was due to government action or merely more social awareness of health issues as medicine advanced) seems flawed to me. Comparing cigarette (or drug/alcohol addiction, even) with a person's ability to regulate food intake is a bad analogy. People can choose not to even start smoking or using substances; people cannot choose whether or not to start eating. It's much harder to regulate something that we already have to do (at least to some extent) than it is to regulate something we can choose to not even start, to stop doing for good, or that we can choose to completely avoid exposure to. If one could choose to permanently eliminate eating from their life like they can cigarettes, it's likely dieting would be a lot more successful, but unfortunately people can't seem to only eat one chip.

This alarming documentary updates and broadens the questionable food exposé in Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" with further glimpsing on to the societal warnings regarding obesity albeit the questionable statistics and insights that only reflect the extent of the problem rather than accurately as criticized. (B)

Watched 'Fed Up' with the Wife who gets into movies like this and she wasn't impressed. She said there are plenty of films in this genre about the food industry and obesity and the inter lying issues and most were better. I, on the other hand enjoyed it and was horrified at many topics including Sugar. It's well made with credible talking heads and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There are a lot of stats in the documentary and good ideas, but to someone educated in this field like my wife it may be very surface. Wife: 5.0 Husband 8.4 Average Score: 6.7/10

Sugar -- bad!!! (AP)

Brilliant documentary about how we are all being tricked into eating deadly diets

What an eye opener! Makes me think twice about what I am buyer to put in my kids bodies. It disgusts me to know whoï¿ 1/2(TM)s all behind this and how out of hand it has gotten.

we already knew most of what is in this documentary. the focus on the weepy fat kids is getting a bit tropey. I will save you all some time here. Eat real food; stop buying things with all kinds of added sugar; lather rinse repeat.

Darn you sugar industry.

To be honest I could care less about this It feels important but id rather play games.

This documentary changed my life style. I quit my sugar addiction cause of it, and then I took a serious look at Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, and never went back and my weight now is stable with no effort.

Everyone needs to watch this for their health.

Despite a little over play, it certainly raises awareness about sugar in our diets and the obesity epidemic we face. I was glad to see that they didn't spare anyone from criticism, regardless of party.

Ketchup is not a vegetable !!!

Right on target about the food industry and government B.S. , making it more about the profits and not our country's health. Sugar is in most things, but so are GMO's and animal products! All of which play a critical role in our very futures, including the American children's futures. Playing with the DNA of our food is wrong!

This documentary has changed my family's lives. My wife has debilitating mental illness. After watching this documentary, we gave up eating added sugar, pasta, milk, yogurt, and rice. We only expected improvements in our physical health but, my wife's drastic mood swings disappeared as well as her fibromyalgia symptoms. My bad cholesterol has always been good but, it dropped from 90 to 67 in just a week and a half. Also my blood pressure went from 120/74 in my prior year's physical to 108/64. I am currently 44 but, I haven't seen those numbers since I was in high school. I also realized that my lack of energy and motivation was caused by all the sugar I was consuming in my typical American diet. For many years I thought I was depressed because of my wife's illness. I would have never thought it was the effects of sugar on my body. We also started taking omega 3 supplements and we were able to lower some of my wife's meds. It helped my memory and my toddlers vocabulary and sentence formation just exploded within just the first couple of weeks. I've since learned that Americans don't get anywhere near the recommended amounts of omega 3. Brain matter is made up of 80% omega 3 and we aren't eating enough to keep our brains healthy. The bottom line of what I've learned is that our bodies are like a sports car. You can put regular grade gasoline in it and it will run but, it won't be able to run to its full capabilities. Just as that sports car needs premium fuel, our bodies need it as well. We aren't designed to eat the American diet, we are designed to eat a whole food diet. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc. If it comes from nature, eat it. If it's man made forget about it. What people don't know is that all the sugar in the American diet is what is driving this diabetes, high blood pressure, and fatty liver disease epidemic. High doses of sugar cause your liver to become fatty. Your liver is like the oil filter in your car. Imaging if you never change the filter. It would clog up and not clean the oil and the car would malfunction and finally break down. Well, a fatty liver is the same as a clogged filter in your car. Your liver cleans your blood. When it becomes fatty it can no longer clean your blood well. That is why your liver enzymes become elevated. I recommend watching hungry for change it had an even greater impact on us. Watch them and then go online and educate yourself. Your doctor will never give you all this information. They just wait until you come in sick and offer you a pill. What they don't tell you is that it's just a band-Aid on the problem. They are not treating te root cause. They are just buying you a little more time. Change your diet and you will have a long healthy life and be there for your children and grand children. You will have great quality of life instead of being a decrepit old person just going from one doctors visit to the next.

One little problem with the film is that most of its "scientific" facts are de facto false.

A very complete well compiled documentary about an eye opening epidemic.

Interesting documentary. I can see why the food industry does not want you to watch that!

Fed Up is a well interesting look on obesity and great information about the issue. The topic is not new, but quite educational

The documentary provides excellent commentary on our nations addiction to sugar and its role in the creation of the obesity epidemic. Well laid out, thoughtful, blunt, honest, and elegant, this film provides answers to a very not-so complicated problem in which government makes complicated... 5/5 stars for a documentary about saving lives instead of driving profits of big food and beverage companies.