Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food

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Today’s Food Culture Is Child Abuse

Here is an engaging, passionate and truly inspired speech about reversing the trend of childhood obesity in this country.

We all know the basic facts of this tragedy, but British chef Jamie Oliver takes the discussion to another level. We need a total reboot to restructure the abysmal food culture for kids at home, in the schools and in life.

It’s not just a great idea in the right direction: it’s urgent. He says that kids in the US today will have a shorter life span by ten whole years than their parents because of the grotesque landscape of food that we’ve built around them.

Obesity costs Americans 10% of the nation’s health care bills – that’s 150 billion dollars a year, and set to double in the next 10 years to 300 billion.

He considers the way we feed our children to be child abuse.

This is not just preaching about cutting down on junk food and soda – this is the voice of real reform. Spread the word!

–Bibi Farber

This video was produced by Ted Talks

 

http://www.ted.com Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

 

Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father’s pub-restaurant. He showed not only a precocious culinary talent but also a passion for creating (and talking about) fresh, honest, delicious food. In the past decade, the shaggy-haired “Naked Chef” of late-’90s BBC2 has built a worldwide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines, all based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get busy in the kitchen. And as much as his cooking is generous, so is his business model — his Fifteen Foundation, for instance, trains young chefs from challenged backgrounds to run four of his restaurants.

 

Now, Oliver is using his fame and charm to bring attention to the changes that Brits and Americans need to make in their lifestyles and diet. Campaigns such as Jamie’s School Dinner, Ministry of Food and Food Revolution USA combine Olivers culinary tools, cookbooks and television, with serious activism and community organizing — to create change on both the individual and governmental level.

 

Join Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution: http://www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns/jamies-food-revolution/petition

 

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