Fed Up is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see because more of us get sick from what we eat than anyone ever realized. Produced by Katie Couric and Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth), Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss revealing a 30 year campaign by the food industry, subsidized by the US government, to mislead and confuse the American public.There’s not a lot new in Fed Up, a documentary about the nation’s obesity epidemic. But it’s a decent summary of the issue, taking square aim at corporations and politicians. Fed Up personalizes the problem by introducing us to individuals, many of them are kids, who are struggling with their weight, and it looks at the sense of frustration and failure that many of them have.

One of the movie’s most helpful segments criticizes the notion that burning calories through exercise can undo poor eating habits. Many people seriously underestimate the amount of exercise they need to compensate for a candy bar or bottle of soda and feel crushed when they don’t lose weight.

It’s hard to argue with the Fed Up‘s basic point, “Sugar is poison.”

Run Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Content Warning: Rated PG