Review of Fed Up (2014) by Guillermo L — 25 Mar 2017

This documentary has changed my family's lives. My wife has debilitating mental illness. After watching this documentary, we gave up eating added sugar, pasta, milk, yogurt, and rice. We only expected improvements in our physical health but, my wife's drastic mood swings disappeared as well as her fibromyalgia symptoms.

My bad cholesterol has always been good but, it dropped from 90 to 67 in just a week and a half. Also my blood pressure went from 120/74 in my prior year's physical to 108/64. I am currently 44 but, I haven't seen those numbers since I was in high school.

I also realized that my lack of energy and motivation was caused by all the sugar I was consuming in my typical American diet. For many years I thought I was depressed because of my wife's illness.

I would have never thought it was the effects of sugar on my body. We also started taking omega 3 supplements and we were able to lower some of my wife's meds. It helped my memory and my toddlers vocabulary and sentence formation just exploded within just the first couple of weeks.

I've since learned that Americans don't get anywhere near the recommended amounts of omega 3. Brain matter is made up of 80% omega 3 and we aren't eating enough to keep our brains healthy.

The bottom line of what I've learned is that our bodies are like a sports car. You can put regular grade gasoline in it and it will run but, it won't be able to run to its full capabilities. Just as that sports car needs premium fuel, our bodies need it as well.

We aren't designed to eat the American diet, we are designed to eat a whole food diet. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc. If it comes from nature, eat it. If it's man made forget about it. What people don't know is that all the sugar in the American diet is what is driving this diabetes, high blood pressure, and fatty liver disease epidemic.

High doses of sugar cause your liver to become fatty. Your liver is like the oil filter in your car. Imaging if you never change the filter. It would clog up and not clean the oil and the car would malfunction and finally break down.

Well, a fatty liver is the same as a clogged filter in your car. Your liver cleans your blood. When it becomes fatty it can no longer clean your blood well. That is why your liver enzymes become elevated.

I recommend watching hungry for change it had an even greater impact on us. Watch them and then go online and educate yourself. Your doctor will never give you all this information. They just wait until you come in sick and offer you a pill.

What they don't tell you is that it's just a band-Aid on the problem. They are not treating te root cause. They are just buying you a little more time. Change your diet and you will have a long healthy life and be there for your children and grand children.

You will have great quality of life instead of being a decrepit old person just going from one doctors visit to the next.