Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Reality or Not?

On March 26th at 9pm, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution reality show premieres on ABC . Jamie travels to Huntington, West Virginia, aka the unhealthiest town in America as deemed by the US government, and embarks on a journey to save the health of the entire town, around 50,000 residents. Health problems plague this town: half of the town is obese, and the diabetes and heart disease rates are soaring. The school children couldn’t even name a tomato, they called it a potato . Thus not surprisingly, the show has ignited controversy … You say Potato, I say Tomato. In the trailer for the show, there is a clip of a classroom of elementary school students who don’t know that tomatoes are tomatoes . They call them potatoes . There is another clip of Jamie reacting in shock when greasy pizza is being served as ‘breakfast’ in a school cafeteria. Then there is another clip of a wilted-faced obese woman sobbing in frustration to Jamie over an enormous pile of greasy, processed, high fat/sugar foods like pizza and snack cakes. Can Jamie, save her, her town and spark a food revolution in America? “We don’t want to sit around and eat lettuce all day.” – radio show host in WV, as …
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