around 100,000 individuals will die from obesity related illnesses every year

An innovative new film called ‘Killer at Large’, has been produced to highlight the dangers of the huge obesity epidemic sweeping the United States. The film made by director Steven Greenstreet involved thousands of hours of research and detailed studies of what exactly causes obesity in America. The film deals with issues such as emotional eating, binge eating and stress eating as well as the problem of food advertising to children and the difficulty that low income families have in getting their hands on healthy nutritious food.

The film which has been sponsored in part by the Department of Health in America highlights the need for a concerted approach to beating obesity from many different Government agencies. The filmmaker referred to obesity as the ‘terror within’ and noted that far more people will die from their weight problems then from the threat of terrorism. He noted that it is estimated that around 100,000 individuals will die from obesity related illnesses every year in America and that unless things change drastically this figure will continue to rise.

In one scene the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt introduces the cartoon character Shrek to serve as a mascot to encourage children to get more exercise.  However as Steve points out the Shrek character has been used by fast food manufacturers to advertise their food to impressionable young children which could be very misleading.

Other aspects of this film deal with children as young as 12 having operations for liposuction which are becoming more and more common and also the huge amount of sugar in the diet of most Americans today. Any money that the United States government spends on initiatives such as sponsoring this film can only serve to help relieve the huge financial burdens that the United States government is shackled with due to huge obesity related productivity losses.