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Fed Up (2014) ❲ULTIMATE | 2026❳

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This is an ongoing series of album reviews and music features published in venues like Jacobin, PopMatters, Post-Trash, Spectrum Culture, and Africa is a Country. I’ve made revisions, corrections, and additions when needed or when I have changed my mind about something. Musicians, bands, and projects include (in no particular order): Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Kim Gordon (also here), Thurston Moore (also here), Nirvana, Nico, Slint, Can, Abdullah Ibrahim, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Aimee Mann, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bad Brains, Kendrick Lamar, Oasis, Jamie xx (also here), Galaxie 500, Big Star, Beastie Boys, Pavement (here also and Gary Young), Sonic Youth (also here), De La Soul, The Magnetic Fields, Shabaka, Edith Frost, Bill Callahan/Smog, Yo La Tengo, Melt-Banana, Laetitia Sadier, Mogwai, África Negra, Neil Young, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Horse Jumper of Love, Royal Trux, Tom Verlaine, The Clean, Mount Eerie, R.E.M., Mdou Moctar, Shabazz Palaces (also here), Steve Albini, Ibaaku, Mitski, Dean Wareham (also here), Bon Iver, DeYarmond Edison (Bon Iver), Jorge Ben, Enarak, Mary Timony, Sunn O))), Guided by Voices (also here), MONO, Tindersticks, Lee Ranaldo and Michael Vallera, The Chills, The Hard Quartet, Kim Deal, Superchunk, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, The Lemonheads, Minwhi Lee, Dirty Three, Water From Your Eyes, White Shape, American Football, Amen Dunes, Mister Goblin, DIIV, Gastr del Sol, Jethro Tull, Jim White, Jay Farrar/Son Volt, Explosions in the Sky, Heatmiser/Elliott Smith, Shellac, J Mascis, Redd Kross, Hum, the Mountain Goats, Future Islands, Pale Saints, Tara Jane O’Neil, Six Organs of Admittance, Abdallah Oumbadougou, Cherubs, Woods, Sentridoh (Lou Barlow), The Folk Implosion (also here), Buffalo Tom, Susanna, John Strohm, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Animal Collective, Aguaturbia, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin, Rainer Buchmüller, et cetera…

Fed Up (2014) ❲ULTIMATE | 2026❳

The documentary , directed by Stephanie Soechtig and narrated by Katie Couric, is an exposé on the American food industry and its role in the obesity epidemic. The film specifically targets the overuse of sugar in processed foods as the primary driver of rising obesity rates, rather than a simple lack of willpower or exercise. Key Themes and Arguments

The film critiques the traditional advice of calorie counting and exercise, arguing that metabolically, different calories (e.g., from sugar vs. fiber) affect the body differently. Expert Perspectives and Reception Fed Up (2014)

Fed Up condemns the perceived collusion between the food industry, Congress, and the USDA. It suggests that financial greed has led to skewed public health information over the last 30 years. The documentary , directed by Stephanie Soechtig and

The film claims that 80% of American grocery store items contain added sugar. It argues that sugar acts on the brain in a way similar to addictive substances like cocaine or heroin. fiber) affect the body differently

The documentary follows several obese children over two years to illustrate how food industry practices and targeted marketing affect their health.

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