This movie has literally changed my life and how I think about food, dieting, and exercise. If you live in America this should be utterly terrifying to watch.
It's always been very difficult to cook things at home, especially from scratch....most recipes now use processed foods and there's no steps in there for making things yourself. We buy sauces, canned goods, dairy products, etc because it's easier and we can't always make some of those foods ourselves.
When it comes to sugar and salt, these products are laden with it. They not only make things taste better, but they make them last longer. Sugar and salt are natural preservatives. Heinz Ketchup is full of high fructose corn syrup (sugar) yet the label says there is no sugar. ONE CAN of Chef Boyardee Ravioli, for example, has 3375mg of salt (4.5 serves of 750mg salt in a can). You would never realise it unless you really looked closely at what the label is actually telling you, which means also understanding the ingredients.
In addition to this, when we stop eating those foods our bodies completely melt down with sugar headaches as our bodies crave and cry out for sugar. For at least 3 days once going clean you're expected to feel exhausted, have headaches, be moody, and worse. You may even have stomach cramps and bowel issues. That doesn't make it easy to cut out the sugar and other nasties from your diet. It's a very steep hill to climb.
Sometimes it feels like everything is stacked against us being healthy and eating right...and we feel like we're failing but the truth is we've been brought up to eat huge meals which are laden with salt and sugar and it's not our fault we're struggling to change.
Sugar lights up our brains exactly the same way cocaine does. Cocaine addicted lab rats will even choose sugar water over cocaine....that's how powerful the addiction to sugar is.
After watching this I wondered how much sugar is really in the things we eat and drink. After factoring in the milk, amount of Milo, and sugar my husband uses in his Milos we ended up with half of the mug he's drinking being full of sugar! We couldn't believe it and it honestly made us feel sick.
Going forward I am going to take common products and show you just how much sugar is in them visually. I'll be using the tags #fedup and #guessthesugar when I post the photos so keep your eyes peeled!
Go ahead and watch this documentary, simply Google "Watch Fed Up 2014 Online" and it will give you some $3.99 rentals as well as some freebies from Putlocker.
