The Case Against Jamie Oliver: Why the Naked Chef Should Take His “Food Revolution” Back Home
By HHR | August 25th, 2010 | Category: Featured | 1 Comment »In February, celebrity British chef Jamie Oliver scooped up the prestigious TED Prize , awarded for his crusade “against obesity and other diet related diseases” and for having “pressured the UK government to invest $1 billion to overhaul school lunches to improve nutrition.” Upon receiving the award, he warned America that it was committing national suicide through food. In an attempt to recreate his British school lunch campaign in the United States, Oliver is launching Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, a reality show that attempts to overhaul the school lunch regimen in America’s unhealthiest city.
But while food nags like Oliver and First Lady Michelle Obama are surely right that Americans need to eat better, is he right that our eating habits are killing us? And do we need a massive budget increase to introduce fresh foods and food education to our schools?
Reason.tv’s Michael C. Moynihan talked to food blogger and journalist Ed Bruske and Reason senior editor Katherine Mangu-Ward about school lunch reform, whether more government money could slim student waistlines, the United States Department of Agriculture’s role in making kids fat, and whether young American really are, as Oliver claims, living shorter lives their parents and grandparents.
Approximalely 7 minutes. Written by Moynihan. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes. Production assistant, Joshua Swain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCcHVagMMCc&feature=player_embedded
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Someone should tell Michael Moynihan, it’s bad manners to talk with your mouth full(as he did in his video short) One book that caught my attention and I checked it out from the public library is titled, The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat And Sick by Richard J. Johnson, MD with Timothy Gower. I have seen the evening television news reports and in my hometown, individuals so large that they waddle as opposed to walking. I have heard it said that Americans dig their own graves with a fork and a spoon. Kids do not run around the schoolyard during lunch to burn off those calories as was the trend when I attended. The rush rush society has given birth to the fast food syndrome. No one sits at the dinner table anymore for meals. The levels of sodium in the processed foods borders on obscenity. Examples of never missing a meal manifested itself on the girth of: Marlon Brando, Orson Wells and Raymond Burr. The food nags will be the ones who will have to design mobile cranes to carry the casket of supersized deceased individuals to the graveyard. Six persons would get a hernia.