The Food Revolution that is. One of my favorite shows is back for it's second season: Jamie's Food Revolution. When the show first aired I had no idea who Jamie Oliver was, but now I'm a huge fan! I love what he's done for his own country and I love what he's trying to do in ours. For anyone that doesn't know what I'm talking about, it's a reality/documentary type show where a famous chef (Jamie) tries to make healthy changes to school lunches, lifestyle changes for families, and just tries to make the public more aware of the obesity epidemic and how to prevent it from worsening.
"I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again, and empower people everywhere to fight obesity." ~JamieI love when Jamie does his dramatic demonstrations to get his point across. On the second season premier he was talking about meat and being aware of where it comes from, because there could be AMMONIA in it! I know I can't explain it well enough so I'm just going to let you watch it. It's not the best quality, but it works.
His second demonstration was to show how much sugar is consumed in a week from flavored milk. I really hate how flavored milk is in schools. It's not necessary. Yeah if you took it away, milk consumption will go down. But if there isn't really another option, eventually they'll take it. If you start the school year without it, it wouldn't be as traumatic as taking it away in the middle of the year. Also, all the new kindergarteners wouldn't even know about flavored milk. Start 'em off right! Anyway, for the demo he filled a school bus with the sugar which ended up totaling 54 tons and took over a half our to pump into the bus (which obviously overflowed). One of those little cartons of flavored milk has more sugar than a can of pop and a can of pop has 12 teaspoons of sugar. You can watch this demonstration below.
Jamie Oliver is one of my heroes and he has convinced me to never let my future children eat school food. If they want it like once or twice a month when they're older then maybe I'll let them, but not while they're younger. I never ate school food in high school and I greatly cut down on how often I bought it in middle school because I realized how gross it was (even though I qualified for free or reduced lunch). Sometimes they had good food, but more often than not it looked questionable. I get turned off when my food doesn't look like it's supposed to.
I probably didn't explain that meat process very well and I left out a lot of what was covered in the episode. I HIGHLY recommend this show! If you don't watch t.v. you should make an exception for this. It's very educational and something all parents or future parents should see.
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