I lately enamor the first few installment ofJamie Oliver ’s Food Revolutionon TV . ( British guy doing a cooking thing ? ratify me up ! ) Oliver ’s show chronicles his endeavour to switch the solid food culture in Huntington , West Virginia – starting in the schools , and also going into the community of interests directly , figure out with families , teaching people to make , and so on . Why Huntington ? Because the CDC says it has the highest rate of obesity in the US . What happens on the show ? Judging from the first few episode , Oliver is met with anger , resentment , but most of all ignorance about eating habit . Now , I ’m not saying this is a job specific to Huntington – I ’ve been to Huntington ( my family is from West Virginia ) and it ’s an American metropolis like any other . But it ’s candidly appalling to see Oliver quiz child on what various solid food are ( like love apple and potatoes – he shows them to a schoolroom and enquire " Does anyone make out what this is ? " ) and discover that the kids have no mind what " existent food " is .
In thisTED talk of the town , Oliver speak about his work on educating people about food . He discusses his workplace in England ( most notably on schooltime lunch programs ) , and present a series of alarming statistics and real - world examples of people pass from diet - link up diseases . Because Oliver ’s wheelhouse is school day intellectual nourishment course of study , he spends a lot of time talking about that stuff – and it ’s amazingly bad . " Pizza for breakfast , anyone ? "
Representative quote:“Diet - related disease is the biggest killer in the US right now , here , today . “And it ’s preventable . This talk is smart , simple , and very alarming .
