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Seriously, Watch Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk About Food Education!
Posted by Justin Thorp in Famous Chefs, Trends on February 13th, 2010
Jamie Oliver has always been someone within the food space that I’ve tracked with. His attitudes around simple delicious dishes that use local fresh ingredients is definitely something that I agree with. Along with being an amazingly accomplished chef and author, he’s done great work advocating for healthy lunches in the schools throughout England.
Well this year the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, and Design), a conference where some of the smartest people in the world come together to talk about world’s issues, honored Jamie with the TED Prize for 2010 for his work in fighting childhood obesity by teaching children about food.
He gave a really moving talk (embedded above). He illustrates through numbers and some very moving stories how diet related illness kill more people every year then anything else. He also comes with a pretty awesome action plan of, which I agree with, of how to combat it…
- Every super markets needs to have a food ambassador that’ll help their patrons be smart about food and how they prepare it.
- Big food brands need to put food education at the heart of their business.
- Fast food companies need to start thinking differently and working to get us off of our addiction to fatty, sugary, and overly processed foods.
- Better regulations around how food is labeled.
- Kids in schools need to be cooked local healthy food.
- Every child needs to be taught 10 recipes that they can use for the rest of their life.
- Their needs to be greater funding for getting healthy food into schools.
As I’ve talked about before on this blog, from a very young age, I was blessed with an amazing mother who helped and encouraged me to learn my way around a kitchen. Also, Both of my parents have been encouragements and examples for eating healthy but I know that others aren’t so lucky.
I a big believer in what Jamie’s advocating. We need to do something. While Washington DC is flailing trying to figure out how to fix health care, we can do so much to actually fix our health.
This is Jamie’s mission statement…
“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”
Seriously, watch Jamie’s talk and let’s do something about what’s happening.
Private Industry Coming To Help Create Healthy Cheaper School Lunches
Posted by Justin Thorp in Restaurants on August 26th, 2009
According to a Reuters article, more and more in Washington DC policy makers are talking about what they can do to make school lunches healthier. The cool part is that private industry has seized the opportunity. Whole Foods is working on a guide for inexpensive healthy lunches and Revolution Foods is actually working on making them. Generally, I believe that private industry can do everything better then the government can so I’m happy where all this is going.
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