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[–] nikesandheels 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Mmm I'd suggest watching it all the way through. They're working their way up to arguing that sugar intake is the main dietary factor that's contributed to obesity. Kind of like when everyone was on the "low-fat" bandwagon, people got fatter because they replaced the fat with sugar and people actually ate more because they thought it was healthier (even if it were "healthier" that doesn't by default mean that it's lower in calories, but people seem to have trouble with that distinction). I think ultimately they used fatlogic phraseology just so that they could place blame squarely, without complicating the issue with other factors.

In general I tend to agree with the documentary. People are eating way, way, way too much sugar. Fuck you can barely buy condiments that don't have added sugars in them. Honestly if someone believed every bit of fat logic in Fed Up, but cuts their sugar intake to 0g, they would still most likely reach or maintain a normal weight and reduce most of their risk factors significantly.

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[–] FriedrichNietzsche ago 

Calories are calories, the source doesn't matter, no good science suggests fat or sugars "cause" more weight gain.

Sugar may be more of a "cause" in that it's much easier to consume sugar; a sugary soda and a fatty soda aren't as easy to consume.

I personally believe food corporations are partly to blame for aggressively marketing and pushing unhealthy food as healthy, inaccurate food labeling (0% trans fat doesn't mean there is no trans fat). However we can't get a grip on this out of control practice and put massive sin taxes on chips and soda and shit. It falls on individuals to be ultimately responsible for themselves, their health and to be informed about what they eat.

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[–] nikesandheels 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I realize the source doesn't matter, but sugar is a sneaky way to make something more calorically dense than it would be otherwise. Basically an extra 4 grams here, going more heavy-handed than you meant to with the coffeemate, an extra 10 grams there, and you can easily add 200 calories without noticing, while still putting a normal amount of food on your plate. If you accidentally grab the original Mott's Apple Sauce instead of the natural, you add 40 calories. That adds up over time when you're not watching your food labels like a hawk (for clarity, I think that is the problem for people who are marginally overweight or "skinnyfat." Butterbeasts make a consistent effort to eat way more food than a normal human would that can't be chalked up to just not reading the label).

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[–] FupaSlayer 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Fed Up caters to the people who think Big Ag / Big Food is conspiring to make them fat and that there is no role in personal responsibility to why they are the way they are. Plus all the scientific inaccuracies that it is littered with.

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[–] purple_pain 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The part where the parent of the 200lb 12 year old says "cereal is pretty healthy and low fat, we definitely use it as a meal replacement and she still can't seem to lose weight" and the camera pans back to reveal 18 boxes of sugary beetus cereals. I bet they let her eat as much of it as she wants because it's so low fat and healthy

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[–] hypercat ago 

yeah, cereal, so not healthy or low fat. Whole milk and sugar carbs are like eating ice cream instead of a meal.

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[–] ThisWeirdIndividual 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

-People started exercising/doing fitness more, and simultaneously, obesity levels rose

Well no fucking shit : as sedentary life styles and crap food generalized, more people started compensating by exercising/doing fitness more, while the lazy morons kept on inflating = same cause, different reactions (or lack of) from different persons.

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[–] blackie ago 

I think 'The Men Who Made Us Fat' is better at explaining the same concept.

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[–] ih8fatfucks ago 

You lasted longer than I did with that bullshit excuse for a "documentary."

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[–] m4tthew 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What I came away from that documentary with was that I can't necessarily disagree with most of what they say, but they leave out a lot of factors that contribute to obesity that don't fit their message.

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[–] joshy83 ago 

I like how Coca Cola funded this study about obesity and the study was even published. It's like... any 101 college class can tell you not to trust a study with a large conflict on interest like that.