‘Fed Up’ to be shown in Truckee
“Fed Up” is a film about the food industry from Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of “An Inconvenient Truth”) and director Stephanie Soechtig.
It will be shown March 24 in Truckee at the North Tahoe High School auditorium at 5:30pm.
Soup, pizza and salad provided by Food Services will be available in the dining commons at 5pm for $5. Bring your own bowl for the soup.
Following the film, a panel of community experts will answer questions and with the goal of helping to make an easy transition to more healthful eating at home and in schools.
Must be some of that special healthy pizza. That should help the kids learn to eat better.
Hope they have ranch and blue cheese dressing for the salad.
Far right wingers spewing out their extreme conservatism of freedom of choice. Don’t these reactionaries realize the government knows best?
Laurie David, a well known arch conservative, produced the film “An Inconvenient Truth” showing, without doubt, global cooling will destroy humanity. Now she is at it again with more right wing nonsense.
Fed Up explores how the food industry has packed foods with unparallelled amounts of sugar that predispose us to diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer and more. Food manufacturers know that sugar is addictive especially when combined in certain ways with fat and sodium. People who are uneducated about this buy foods for themselves and their children that are packed with hidden sugars. Our livers have not evolved to handle this amount of sugar. Not only is it hard on the liver (fatty liver) but what is not burned by exercise is stored as fat. The leading endocrinologists in the world ( at UCSF and other research institutions) have stated that sugar is addictive and harmful and the amount of it that we eat should be reduced by at least two thirds.
My nephew was watching a television show produced in the 1950s and remarked that so few people in the audience were overweight. He was right. When I think back to elementary school or high school I can remember only a handful of students being overweight. Now a huge percentage of kids we see at school are chubby or worse.
I know that many readers think this sort of thing is a government plot to control us but wait until the Type 2 diabetes epidemic which is currently in the making explodes on the public health scene. The projected costs of dealing with it are alarming.
Many of today’s diseases are diseases of lifestyle–too much sugar and fat, sedentary living.
We all know someone who is getting fatter and softer every year as they fill up on sugary sodas and “energy” drinks while eating chips and burgers. This may be fine to the extent that it is a personal choice but the public health implications are enormous and before very long these public health problems will be in our laps in the form of a health care system that is overwhelmed by lifestyle diseases like Type 2 diabetes. And someone will have to pay for it. Maybe it would be wiser to help people modify their eating habits now.
All that exercise and nutrition education has really worked? All part of the decline of America.