"Fed Up" (I put the link to the trailer below) is a movie coming out in a few days that caught my attention because it's all about the industrial manipulation of the food culture of the United States. It baffles me how, for profit, the food industry will (and is allowed to) manipulate consumers into buying products that are causing obesity and diabetes epidemics in the US. Yes, manipulation is how the advertising industry works, but the junk food industry is so powerful and so malign. Whether through labeling, insanely low pricing, food fillers/imitators, the addictive nature of the composition of the food, etc... this industry has an insane amount of power that a lot of Americans are not aware of - because of their greedy manipulations, this coming generation is the first, in America, that is predicted to live shorter lives than their parents.
"Fed Up" Movie Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7A2RylUTiw
Article about the addictiveness of junk foods: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?_r=0
Article about diet sodas: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/diet-soda-health_b_2698494.html
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