A Review of Fathead

This is an amazing piece of documentary filmmaking. As entertaining as it is informative I really liked the lack of heavy handed finger wagging and gloom-and-doom. Probably most significant is the data about the "obesity epidemic" that's not really overtaking western society. Yes, there are more obese people and they are more obese than in the past but the numbers have been over-inflated (pun intended) by special interests including the weight loss industry and food manufacturers bent on selling more product and self-help diet books.

I'm a little nervous about the message that fast food, eaten in the right way, can actually be a good weight loss strategy but Mr. Naughton does a good job at balancing that with sound facts about avoiding trans fats and why fast food actually makes you fat (it's the potatoes).  He also makes it clear that this is an experiment and a way of exposing "Super-Size Me" as a blatant, albeit successful, way of making money and leveraging that into a lot of publicity for the filmmaker.

The interviews are fantastic. Some well known and well respected minds including Dr's Michael and Mary Dan Eads are included detailing  the nearly criminal involvment of the US government in helping destroy community health.