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Fed Up

Name: Fed Up
Director: Stephanie Soechtig
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-05-09
Cast: Katie Couric, Michael Pollan, Bill Clinton, Tom Vilsack, Kelly Brownell

Documentary

Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

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Cast

Katie CouricMichael PollanBill ClintonTom VilsackKelly BrownellMichael BloombergMichele Simon

Director

Stephanie Soechtig

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