Saturday, February 27, 2010

Dietary/Nutritional education

Jamie Oliver gets it. Juvenile obesity and diabetes are on the rise. Most of the "diseases of affluence" start during youth. To make a real lifelong impact, nutritional education must start in school or before. Check out his talk at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

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Flo Finklestein said...

Just after reading this post, I noticed that Jamie Oliver has a t.v. show related to this video, so I started to watch it. He's not even trying to get people to eat low fat on the show, he's just trying to get them to avoid horrifically high fat processed glop.

The show that sticks in my mind is when Jamie makes chicken "nuggets" in an attempt to disgust the kids. He takes some chicken back and chicken skin, puts them in a blender, and then adds some filler and fries it up. Apparently that never failed to disgust kids back in England (hey, it worked on me, I was totally disgusted), but the American kids watched him make it and then ate it. Sad stuff.