Jamie+Oliver

What do you think of obesity in the United States? Well statistics have proven that the United States is the most obese part of the world. People may not realize that eating unhealthy food can shorten your life. Something I want to avoid in the future is living in a world where everyone’s life. Something I want to avoid in the future is living in a world where they die within the first forty or fifty of years of their life. Although the part that is making the problem really bad are the schools and the fattening food they are serving there students. The school food is one of the main sources to the problem we’ve encountered.

Well there is one main person who tried to make a food revolution. That person’s name is the famous UK Chef Jamie Oliver and it so happens to be that “food revolutions” so happens to be the name of his show. He came from the UK because he saw that the US needs help trying to become healthy because about 60% of adults are obese. Well the first thing he did thinking would help star t the food revolution was go to the fattest place in the US which is Huntington. Also the first thing he did in Huntington was going to one of the local elementary schools and wanted to see what they had been serving the students to eat. The first thing he saw was them serving the students was pizza for breakfast. Well the next thing they did was serve the kids chicken nuggets and what the kids did was eat the chicken nuggets and other unhealthy food products and throw everything else away. He got so mad about all the healthy food being wasted so he took charge and told the lunch ladies it is time for a change. They were not very happy about it but they agreed to do it but they would go back to their old ways if the students did not like it so that was there deal. He tried but no matter how hard he tried but he had a hard time trying to get the kids to eat the food. Although finally he got them to eat the food so he completed the first part of his food revolution. His next step was to go to L.A. and see if he could change their eating habits but no matter how hard he tried the school district would not let him work in any of the schools because they don’t want to get embarrassed about what they are feeding the kids and what they should be doing. “In reality anybody can eat healthy with just some thought- you don’t have to fry chicken in oil, you can even put it in the oven and roast it with some herbs.” This shows you can still make good food and still make it taste good.

The main solutions are to convince people that even most healthy foods can taste good. Although people don’t want to believe it so Jamie Oliver has been going to all the schools he possibly can in the US showing them how to make good food that tastes good to feed to the students. Also he is showing them that the food made from scratch is a lot better than food reheated in an oven. Even though making food from scratch will take more time it is a lot healthier and will make the problem so much easier to handle. “I gave a high school Social Studies class a simple food quiz. One of the questions was, Where does honey come from? A bear? A tree? Bees?” Almost all of the students got the answer wrong when you would think that they would have got it right.

There is now only one main problem and that problem is Healthy Lunches. Most of the kids look at a healthy meal that has all kinds of fruits and vegetables but all they see from that is a bunch of food they are not used to eating. Also most of the healthy lunches they are trying to get them to eat are things they have never heard of in their life. Well now instead of the students eating the lunches they serve at school they now are bringing their own un healthy lunch from home. A student says “Were eating more junk food now than last year.” Even no matter how hard they try to get them to eat healthy it just isn’t working. They are just too used to eating unhealthy at home and school. The only possible way to fix this problem is to teach them how to make tasty healthy foods and all of it is doing to their body. Another student had said “ The chicken pozole was watery, the vegetable tamale was burned and hard, and noodles were soggy.” Another reason people aren’t eating healthy is because they don’t know how to cook healthy food.

In my opinion people need to change their eating habits as fast as they can because I don’t want to see all these unhealthy people suffer slow painful deaths. It is sad to see that slowly the human population is becoming over weight because of unhealthy food. Another thing that is sad is how high school students did not even know where honey came from. That is what makes it really sad.

In conclusion hopefully in the future everyone will start to eat healthy and students will actually know where honey comes from next time someone asks them. I just wish that our world in the future is a whole lot better because I don’t want our world to end with everyone dying of high blood pressure or just being overweight. I just hope everyone comes to their senses and realizes the truth.