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Globesity

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Obesity used to be framed as a rich-country problem. This film argues that framing is now decades out of date, tracking how fast food, processed snacks, and sugary drinks have spread from American suburbs into Mexico, India, and other rapidly urbanizing countries over the last forty years. Doctors, public health researchers, and nutrition experts explain what changed: cheaper calories, aggressive marketing from multinational food and beverage companies, and diets that shifted away from traditional staples within a single generation. The film moves between clinics treating diabetes and heart disease in populations that had almost none a generation ago, and boardrooms and ad campaigns where the products driving that shift are sold. It treats obesity as an infrastructure problem as much as a personal one, built into how food is grown, priced, and advertised worldwide. The result is less a warning about willpower than a case that the global food system itself manufactured an epidemic, one soda and one supermarket at a time.