Fed Up

So, I decided to finally watch the documentary "Fed Up". INTERESTING.

Fed Up: An examination of America's obesity epidemic and the food industry's role in aggravating it.

Here is the facts they give summed up. These are quite shocking!

• Daily recommended amount of sugar (max/day) 6-9 tsp. 1 tsp=4 grams so 36 grams/day
• Daily percent of sugar no more than 10%, however due to lobbyists, daily sugar percent is NOT listed on packages.
• When they took fat out of foods to make them low or no fat products, they had to add something to make it taste better, so what did they add? Sugar!
• In 2012, Americans consumed an average of 765 grams of sugar every 5 days, or 130 pounds each year.
• A 20-ounce bottle of soda contains the equivalent of approximately 17 teaspoons of sugar. 
• Number of kids with type 2 or adult onset diabetes in 1980, 0. Number in 2010, OVER 53,000
• More than 9 Million adolescents(children and teens 6-19 years old) are considered overweight.
• It will take a 110-pound child 75 minutes of bike riding to burn off the calories in one 20-ounce bottle of soda.
• One in five Black children ages 2 to 19 is obese, compared with approximately one in seven White children.
• Almost 45 percent of overweight or obese children ages 10 to 17 are poor
• When Michelle Obama started her Let's Move campaign, food producers/companies got scared, so how did they react? They "volunteered" to help. Stating they will help to reduce the amount of calories in foods sold, but sugar amounts still stayed the same. Now Michelle Obama pushes the exercise instead of enforcing action on food issues because now with the food companies backing her, she can't really go head to head with them anymore.
• Junk is still Junk, even if it's less junky.
• In the United States, it is estimated that 93 Million Americans are affected by obesity
• One soda a day increases a child’s chance of obesity by 60%
• Latino children see 49 percent more television ads on Spanish- language television for sugary drinks and energy drinks compared with their White counterparts
• Individuals who drink one to two sugar-sweetened beverages per day have a 26 percent higher risk for developing type II diabetes
• In schools, french fries and pizza sauce are considered "veggies".
• School lunches were suppose to be serving better healthy options yet they are Horrible!!! In 2012, more than half the US schools served fast food, IE: McDonald's, Papa Johns, etc...
• 80% of schools have deals with Coke or Pepsi
• Regan cut the budget to school lunches to save money in economy. Schools had to figure out how to save so they sold their cooking equipment and turned to food companies to make easy to serve just reheat foods.
• Kids watch an average of 4000 food-related ads every year (10/day). 98% of food related ads that children view (3920/year) are for products high in fat, sugar, sodiumThere was a law on cigarettes that for every cigarette ad on TV their had to be equal air time for anti tobacco ads. Kids now don't see ads for veggies and fruits, they only see ones for unhealthy foods. Why cant it be the same way it was for cigarettes?
• Kids in kindergarten/first grade don't know what veggies and fruits are, cannot name them when shown a picture of them. 
• An attempt to cut ads for processed foods was attempted however food companies fought. One even stated "Ronald McDonald never sells to children. He informs and inspires through magic and fun."- Shelly Rosen
• If we keep it up at this rate with food, In 20 years, 95% of people will be overweight or obese, and by 2050, 1/3 of people will have diabetes.
• How can we fix this??? Get off sugars, get off processed foods, steer clear of ingredients you don't recongnize, added sugar hides in places, avoid kids meals.
• WHO has issued call for 50% sugar consumption
• Diet related disease is the biggest killer of people today

For more information on the documentary and information from the documentary go to  FedUpMovie.com

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Til Next Time!