Fed Up

Fed Up (2014) is an American documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Stephanie Soechtig and narrated by journalist Katie Couric, the film investigates how decades of dietary guidelines and public health campaigns failed to slow obesity — and asks who actually benefits from that failure.

The argument traces thirty years of food industry lobbying, government policy, and deliberate consumer confusion. Economists, nutritionists, and former USDA officials appear on screen; Michael Pollan provides sharp commentary throughout. The central claim — that added sugar, not fat, drove the epidemic, and that industry worked hard to keep that connection obscure — is made with enough sourced evidence to be uncomfortable to dismiss. Couric steers the film closer to advocacy than journalism, which is worth knowing going in. Stream Fed Up (2014) on iFILM.