What America Eats: The Triumph of Marketing Over Science

Fed Up director says companies deliberately mislead consumers

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What inspired you to make the movie?
The initial idea was [the film’s executive producer and narrator] Katie Couric’s. I was on her show promoting my last film, Tapped, and as I was leaving, she said, “I have been covering the diet trends and various exercise fads for 35 years, and yet the country and indeed the world is getting bigger and sicker. Would you ever be interested in taking a more comprehensive look at what’s going on?” The film covers a lot of ground.

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