Watch the film Fed up and answer the following questions. Please use complete sentences. Please be thoughtful in your answers.
What types of foods are making young people overweight?
Why is a calorie not a calorie?
Explain the difference between almonds and soda with respect to calories.
What is processed food?
What are the dangers of eating unhealthy foods besides becoming fat?
What media and cultural messages are young people exposed to that work against healthy eating habits?
How can you tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods in the grocery store or in a restaurant?
What did you think of the statement: “Sugar is poison”?
Which organs process sugar in the body and what do they do with it?
Explain the biological process that occurs when a person eats too much sugar.
What are the side effects of a sugar-heavy diet?
Were you surprised by the sugar content in any of the foods listed in the film?
What is the difference between corn syrup, cane sugar, brown sugar, honey, and the various other types of sugar that we consume?
How are corporate interests in conflict with public health?
What is the “big food” industry, and what are its goals?
What tactics does the food industry use to market and sell their products, especially to young people?
What has the food industry done to promote healthy eating habits? Have these efforts been successful?
What do you think would have to happen for a corporation to put public interest over profit?
What do you believe is the role of the government in creating a healthier America?
What is regulation?
What would it mean to regulate “big food”?
What is a lobbyist and what is their role in this issue?
Describe the relationship between junk food corporations, lobbyists, politicians, and public health policy: why is pizza called a vegetable when it’s served in school cafeterias?
Do you agree with the film’s argument that the junk food industry should be regulated the way that the tobacco industry was regulated?
What is the argument against regulating the junk food industry? What is a “nanny state”? 5)
Describe the history of the food industry in America.
When did we first learn that overconsumption of sugars, fats and empty carbohydrates was unhealthy?
What conflict did the USDA face when studies showed that Americans should eat less, and particularly less fatty foods?
How did the US government and the food industry work together in the 1980s to promote a low fat diet while still promoting the consumption of processed food products?
Which organs process sugar in the body and what do they do with it?
What types of foods are making young people overweight?
Why is a calorie not a calorie?
Explain the difference between almonds and soda with respect to calories.
What is processed food?
What are the dangers of eating unhealthy foods besides becoming fat?
What media and cultural messages are young people exposed to that work against healthy eating habits?
How can you tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods in the grocery store or in a restaurant?
What did you think of the statement: “Sugar is poison”?
Which organs process sugar in the body and what do they do with it?
Explain the biological process that occurs when a person eats too much sugar.
What are the side effects of a sugar-heavy diet?
Were you surprised by the sugar content in any of the foods listed in the film?
What is the difference between corn syrup, cane sugar, brown sugar, honey, and the various other types of sugar that we consume?
How are corporate interests in conflict with public health?
What is the “big food” industry, and what are its goals?
What tactics does the food industry use to market and sell their products, especially to young people?
What has the food industry done to promote healthy eating habits? Have these efforts been successful?
What do you think would have to happen for a corporation to put public interest over profit?
What do you believe is the role of the government in creating a healthier America?
What is regulation?
What would it mean to regulate “big food”?
What is a lobbyist and what is their role in this issue?
Describe the relationship between junk food corporations, lobbyists, politicians, and public health policy: why is pizza called a vegetable when it’s served in school cafeterias?
Do you agree with the film’s argument that the junk food industry should be regulated the way that the tobacco industry was regulated?
What is the argument against regulating the junk food industry? What is a “nanny state”? 5)
Describe the history of the food industry in America.
When did we first learn that overconsumption of sugars, fats and empty carbohydrates was unhealthy?
What conflict did the USDA face when studies showed that Americans should eat less, and particularly less fatty foods?
How did the US government and the food industry work together in the 1980s to promote a low fat diet while still promoting the consumption of processed food products?
Which organs process sugar in the body and what do they do with it?
