Fed Up

This week the film Fed Up has been everywhere in the news.  Fed Up is a 2014 American documentary film directed, written and produced by Stephanie Soechtig. American journalist and TV personality Katie Couric also produced and narrates the documentary. The film premiered in competition category of U.S. Documentary Competition program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2014...The film explains how, since the U.S. government issued its first dietary guidelines 30 years ago, the rate of obesity has skyrocketed. Generations of kids will live shorter lives than their parents. And I am fed up with Fed Up! So I went looking for reviews of the film that look at it with even a slightly critical eye. I found none in the available newspaper film reviews that I could locate. This did not surprise me because I expect for the most part such reviews to align with the dominant paradigm which is to see fat as the root of much evil afflicting us. Fat has been medicalized into “obesity”. But this does not remove it from also being seen as a moral issue. To be fat is to be identified as gluttonous and slothful, guilty of two of the seven deadly sins as well as being emblematic of pathology, both psychological and physical. Francine Prose in her little book from The Seeven Deadly Sins series writes:  our fixation on health, our quasi-obscene fascination with illness and death, and our fon...
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