Fed Up

Fed Up

By: Chris Lytle
VP of Anger Management
Plan Z Diet





Zola, Jen and I shut the office at noon on the Friday before Memorial Day. Then, we headed for the theater to watch Fed Up.

The film follows some overweight kids who are trying to lose weight using the conventional wisdom of eating less and exercising more.

It is painful to watch as one very overweight young girl tries swimming and working out to no avail.

The problem: the food they are eating at home and during school lunch. They're eating the same food that we tell you to AVOID on the Plan Z Diet.

Fed Up speaks to the tremendous amount of misinformation in the market place today. The same misinformation that makes me angry and that we try to correct on the Plan Z Diet.

Parents of these overweight kids are buying healthy, low fat food for them. Of course, since fat doesn’t make you fat and carbohydrates do, these fat kids don’t keep gaining. These misinformed parents think that low fat cereal and skim milk will help their kids lose weight. Then, there’s one mom who switches to Lite Hot Pockets from regular Hot Pockets.

If you’ve already seen Gary Taubes’ lecture, Adiposity 101: Why We Get Fat and Robert Lustig’s You Tube sensation, Sugar, the Bitter Truth, yyou’re ahead of the learning curve.

One of the saddest things about Fed Up didn’t happen on screen. An obese young man sat down behind us, settled into his reclining seat and proceeded to sleep through the film and miss the valuable information he needed.

Fed Up vilifies sugar and we do to on the Plan Z Diet. It drives home the case that excess sugar in our blood stream is the reason for the “obesity crisis.” At the end of the film, audience members are urged to do the 10-Day Sugar Elimination Challenge and document their experience through social media.

That’s a start.

Of course, we’ve been telling our Plan Z Diet clients about the evils of sugar for years and also providing Zola’s ZR50 Reduction formula for making going cold turkey on sugar a much easier proposition.

Zola, Jen and I gave Fed Up “three thumbs up” with a couple of reservations: The documentary goes off the rails a bit when the producers take on the USDA for promoting cheese after warning us in the food pyramid to reduce our fat consumption.

One part of the department is urging us to reduce fat, while down the hall bureaucrats were working on a campaign to sell more “Cheese Glorious Cheese.”

While that’s true and proof that you don’t want government in your kitchen, the producers of the film are still fat phobic. The implication is that advertising cheese promotes obesity when nothing could be further from the truth. Remember, fat doesn’t make you fat. Carbohydrates do.

Whenever, I take a phone order for the Plan Z Diet by Zola, I tell the new client that at least 60% of the value of the diet comes from the education you receive in the manual and through the daily e-mails and links to various videos we have found for you.

Fed Up rounds up the usual suspects to do short snippets on the evils of sugar and the problems in our food supply. There’s Gary Taubes, Kelly Brownell, Robert Lustig, Mark Hyman, former FDA commissioner David Kessler, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and many more. As a client, we have already introduced you to most of these characters.

Still, if you want an entertaining, educational does of righteous indignation, then you may want to watchFed Up at a theater near you or download it from Netflix.

Over the weekend, Zola and I watched an even more compelling reason to get sugar and starch out of the cupboards and out of our bodies like we do on the Plan Z Diet.

Dr. David Perlmutter’s PBS special Brain Change makes the compelling case that elevated sugar levels not only increase your risk of diabetes, but also attacks your brain and slows down cognitive function and increases the risk of getting Alzheimer’s.

Perlmutter, a neurologist, is a great advocate of eating eggs, coconut oil, avocados and and other healthy fat to promote brain health.

You may want to learn more about Dr. Permutter’s work HERE. Then, when well-meaning family and friends say you’re eating the wrong things on ZReboot, pull out the good doctor’s video and put another grass fed steak on the grill.

Stay Angry My Friends,

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