Title All Jacked Up (012990)
Physical Color; Sound; 114 minutes
Copyrighted 2008
Producer Vending Machine, LLC.
Audience Grades 4-6, Grades 7-9, Grades 10-12 (IJS)
Synopsis Portrait of four teenagers who discover the truth about their obsessive, addictive, and emotion-fueled eating habits. All this brought on by their parents, schools, and our abusive food system that profits from them with no regard to their well-being. The documentary features interviews with both top health and nutrition experts as well as real teenagers as they share their traumatic experiences with living on junk food. The program reveals the truth behind food corporations including the use of manipulative marketing practices, the ingredients used in many processed foods like high fructose corn syrup that accelerates obesity and diabetes in children, how junk foods break up families, cause depression and even suicidal tendencies. Viewers are challenged to come to grips with their harmful lifestyles and what their unhealthy future holds. This frank and witty look at what is going on inside the bodies, hearts and minds of the teen generation is a wake up call to stand up and demand change. Includes graphic scenes of animals being processed that may not be appropriate for younger students.
Credits Co-written and directed by Jennifer Mattox.
Contents Contains graphic scenes of livestock animals being improperly treated, in distress and being slaughtered. May be inappropriate for children under 13.
Subjects Health & Safety; Nutrition; Health; Health education; Food; Food—Composition; Food habits; Teenagers—Health and hygiene
Holdings  DVD
View Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMrc045mKbA