Jamie Oliver Obese for Public Health Education

August 17, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Tid Bits & News at 9:28 am | (2) Comments »

31-yearold celebrity chef Jamie Oliver continues on with his campaign to educate us on childhood obesity & the lack of quality in UK school lunches.

Oliver spent four hours in makeup, being covered in latex to gain the appearance of an obese man. He left the studio a different man & went to the first place a fat man would go- a burger joint. Oliver left the burger establishment, bag in hand, & managed to climb aboard his motor scooter only to have it buckle under his weight.

A passer-by stated, “He did look very convincing as a fat person.”

Oliver’s latex-fat was an attempt to take his junk food debate to the streets. The Naked Chef claims that British school dinners are the “laughing stock of Europe” and contain more junk than sustenance. Jamie is putting together a petition for UK schools to ban junk food permanently. More than 270,000 members of the public have signed so far.

Dietitian Rosan Meyer said it was “the cleverest piece of public health education we’ve had in many years”.

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Laura Said,

January 4, 2007 @ 7:31 am

Cute stunt, but no government anywhere has the right to “ban” ingredients or foods. We lose our freedom when we don’t have the right to say no, I’m not going to choose that option. Whose fault is it that children are obese? THEIR PARENTS!! Woo HOO, now THERE”S a painful idea. If parents would vote for healthy food choices with their DOLLARS, these food companies interested in PROFIT would listen. SINCE WHEN DO I NEED A NANNY STATE TO MAJE MY DECISIONS FOR ME??

NOw school lunches are a different matter. I am ALL FOR healthier school lunches. They scary part is that requires FRESH foods at the local school (e coli, anyone>), and if anyone has checked recently, the government NEVER does anything in a timely manner except collect my taxes or penalize me for being too slow.
Health System Said,

January 25, 2007 @ 1:35 pm

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