HOORAY!
If it’s anything like The Biggest Loser, consider me a fan!
Here’s a trailer for the new show produced by Ryan Seacrest, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, which will air on ABC. (How does Ryan Seacrest have time to produce television shows? I suspect he’s cloned himself, Multiplicity-style, and he sends the really stupid one in to handle the Idol auditions.) It’s yet another show addressing America’s growing obesity epidemic — did you know the current generation of the kids is the first in history to have a lower expectation of lifespan than their parents? I’ve talked ad nauseum about my frustration with obesity in this country, especially among children, so any TV show that’s out there trying to show Americans what overeating is doing to their bodies — and more importantly, to the bodies of their children, who lack the finances and the information to make their own responsible food choices — is a thumbs-up in my book. I’ll be tuned in!
Gonna state the obvious
it’s not just overeating…it’s the quality of the food too. Fresh food or at least without a bunch of artificial additions and preservatives is a helluva lot better than packaged crap that they had to do a bunch of stuff to in order to make it “low-fat” or “sugar-free”
So it’s ‘over eating’ of bad food then.
If obesity doesn’t get us, being fat will.
If you were half as funny as you think you are, you’d still be a stupid fat fucking douche.
Egg on my face.
I LOVE JAMIE OLIVER.
just wish he would pronounce the “t’s” . . . but I guess the bri’ish just can’t flap that tongue to the roof.
I think that Jamie has an actual speech impediment. A weird lisp, kind of like his tongue is swollen.
Anywho, the guy means well but it’s a losing battle. Everyone already knows the things he says, but people choose not to listen. The supersized Big Mac and that Big Gulp is too tasty!
(I’m gorging on pizza as we speak, but don’t bite my head off. I busted my ass in Bodypump class this morning, I won’t be able to sit down even to take a dump for days.)
Those moms looked like they didn’t know about their kids’ projected lifespan being shorter than their own.
Hopefully that will keep them off the soda aisle…
Yeah, Jamie Oliver has a speech impediment. Also he used to play up his “essex boy” background- he speaks badly on purpose.
Nobody in Britain talks like Jamie. And I, for one, pronounce my ‘t’s.
America is the worst country ever. I dont care if anyone disagrees. They dont even give respect for someone TRYING to help their fat ass live longer.
We’re very ungrateful for everything we have. Disrespect is as common, if not more, than kindness.
Oh, man. This is going to be great. I love this dude and the shit he believes – HELL YES! Oh yes he caaaan!
…yes he can.
The quality and quantity of our food here is the real problem.
duh
Fuck yeah. Kinda reminds me of “You Are What You Eat.”
I hope it helps.
Prove you’ve mastered refined eating excellence Jaime, the exceptionally talented man who is pushing culinary boundaries and perfect health in America., Europe, the world and beyond! Go in the kitchen and make me a ham and cheese sammy and bring me a cold lite bee.. *snickers*..
Jamie Oliver did a similar show in the UK a couple of years back and I caught a few episodes. It was called “Jamie Oliver’s School Lunches” and he toured UK public schools examining the school cafeteria menus and making recommendations; for each city, he also chose one family who ate particularly badly and tried to help them out.
Some of it was really disturbing. In one scene, he called a bunch of 10-year-olds into a classroom and asked them to identify a series of vegetables, and they couldn’t do it. I think none of them knew what carrots were. And then there was a single-parent family where the mother was run ragged by her super-hyperactive sons. Jamie Oliver just walked into the kitchen and was like, “Eh, maybe you shouldn’t feed them such sugary crap?” Apparently the change in their behavior was striking after that.
I live in the UK now and I’m careful not to adopt too many of the national eating (and drinking) habits, which can be pretty extreme. I’m originally from Canada, which doesn’t break the top ten in terms of obesity, but that’s no reason for anyone to get complacent.
A country in economic peril….
Quality food costs more. Junk is cheap.
Exactly! Exactly. I have a fairly large family and quality food is ridiculously expensive. I’ve commented numerous times to my husband that if we ate Hamburger Helper or massive quantities of spaghetti/white rice/carbs, we’d save a fortune. When people compare pricing on fresh food vs. packaged, they don’t even get into the fact that half the time I buy berries (for example) 1/4 will be squishy or bad from the get-go. Then you have to eat it right away or it goes off. A box of Twinkies has a much more consistent quality and shelf-life. When you’re on a budget, that makes a HUGE difference. Maybe the government should put more money into helping farmers instead of wall street.. would that help?
My husband and I were on a really tight budget when we both started school at the same time.
We found that buying produce and then bulk grains like quinoa turned out to be waaaay cheaper and way healthier than buying anything boxed like Hamburger Helper.
If you don’t eat out more than once or twice a week you’ll notice your weight drop off — there are so many hidden sugars in everything you buy in restaurants. and it’s sooo expensive to eat out.
I live in Melbourne (Australia) and the produce here is expensive in the supermarkets. When we started going to a local farmers market it literally HALVED our food bill, and the fruit/veggies/meat are twice as good as the commercial stuff. Obesity isn’t such a problem over here, but it’s still a problem – but there is no excuse!
The thing is, it doesn’t matter how well you eat, if you’re not exercising as well you’ll never have optimum health.
wow. that clip just made me totally weep. this looks so good.
I live in Canada and just got back from a business trip to the States. I was in Pittsburgh looking for places to eat and couldn’t believe how much fattening food was on just about every menu I encountered.
I try to keep my consumption of bread and pasta down because it just turns into sugar unless you are working out within a few hours of consuming these foods. Pretty much EVERY side dish in the restaurants I went to was some form of potatoes, bread or pasta. To get a larger salad or veggies, I had to pay MORE.
Trying to find a place for lunch that served wraps instead of sandwiches was impossible. The one place I found that had wraps served them deep-fried. I am not joking. And they were only $4.00 each. No wonder Americans are fighting for their lives. There seem to be way less healthy dining-out options in the U.S. than in Canada.
I was in Pittsburgh for a conference and we were given a restaurant list and there wasn’t one vegetarian option on the list – and there were over 45 restaurants listed. I asked at the front desk to recommend a vegetarian restaurant to me and not only could they not think of one, they didn’t know how to obtain the information.
I’m not a vegetarian but when you’re on the road and dining out starts to weigh you down, the best alternative is to eat a ton of veggies for one of your meals. Thankfully Subway is so readily available in nearly every city in North America. It saved me a few times on this trip.
Americans are going to keep getting fatter and fatter unless you change your ways.
I live in Canada too and I’m always astounded watching American TV channels at the food commercials… How cheap and the sheer volume of fast food available. My husband and I have often commented that we would probably put on massive weight if we lived in the US. I went over the border grocery shopping and had the same experience… astonishment at how much *packaged* food you could get for so little (compared to here). It’s a pretty dark side of capitalism.
I too am Canadian, living in Montreal. I used to travel extensively throughout the US for work. The portion sizes continually astounded me, especially in the Midwest. I commuted weekly to Indianapolis for 6 months at one point. I’d order a standard meal from a local resto each Sunday after arriving. It would be my dinner for three nights generally in my hotel. It was quite standard to see the locals clear their plates in one go within these places.
Truly amazing! Then there was the guy in the office that went to Sonic every single morning to pick up his breakfast. This amounted to a litre of pop and something deep fried or a ‘wrap’ that was full of bacon and eggs. Needless to say he hadn’t seen his penis in years without the assistance of a mirror.
I used to make a meal of one or two appetizers in the US and was fine. Bruschetta and something with meat. Interesting people in the NE and SW, Boston and San Diego for example seemed to generally have much better dietary habits in general. During a work week in Green Bay I was curious to find out if there were any women in the city that weighed less than I do (200 lbs – not fat at over 6′ tall), and probably saw 4 or 5 during that time.
All you Canadian, Australian, etc. fucks should just fuck off. In the U.S.A. even our poor people are fat. So suck on that.
Yes, Canada you have the best view of Niagara Falls. ’cause you’re looking at America!
Australia you have the best view of New Zealand’s ass.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAROTFLMAO…. This site is just the laugh I need after a long day.
On the topic of this show…get me to that city ASAP! I’ll be like Giselle there! Aw yeah. Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me…
i am def. going to watch this show! i have to say though, Jamie Oliver looks like he may have packed on a couple pounds….I mean, I don’t think I would take him very seriously either with the way he looks & talks. some of the faces he pulls in the clip are just magic. lol
Jamie did a series in the UK called Jamie’s School Dinners. He shamed the UK Government into acting to legislate for minimum dietary standards in the state school dining program.
His classic tv episode was an expose on on what went into making a favourite menu item produced by a large company called Bernard Matthews called Turkey Twizzlers. One morning, he got a class to make their own Twizzlers by liquidizing the actual ingredients of turkey skin, turkey fat, cartilage, rusk and salt. They were then rolled in crumb and deep fried. Come lunchtime he challenged them to go into the school dining hall to eat Twizzers as they would do normally. Guess what, the kids had gone off them.
One day, kids will turn to their parents and say ‘in what world did you think it was a good idea to feed me this s***”.
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