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I watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution this weekend. Talk about eye-opening. I never went to a school with a lunch program, so I never realized how much processed junk is served. That's what the government deems to be nutritious, and also what comes in under budget. For as suspicious we are of our government at getting too involved in things and telling us what to do, for some reason in this area we've completely let bureaucrats take over. And we're all pretty okay with it. And it's not just with school lunches, but all processed foods. There's this idea that if the FDA doesn't have a problem with it and it's in our grocery store, then it's fine to eat. We even get defensive about it. Why do we do that? Why do we feel the (sometimes) very strong need to protect sub-standard food?
I think it really got to the root of the problem with obesity in America. (Well, it's even more than an "obesity" issue - it's a general health issue.) There's this sort of ambivalence to food and nutrition a lot of times. (And sometimes even a belligerent attitude of "it's my right to eat crap.")
Somewhere along the way we've fallen down on eating right, with time, money and convenience outweighing health. I'm not pointing fingers - I've been guilty of it myself. Who doesn't love a good burger? And popping something in the microwave is easy. And I don't think it's bad to have that from time to time. It's just when an entire diet revolves around it, it's problematic. If I hadn't already stopped eating frozen dinners a year or so ago, this show would make me stop. I kind of wish everyone in the U.S. had to watch it.
I think it really got to the root of the problem with obesity in America. (Well, it's even more than an "obesity" issue - it's a general health issue.) There's this sort of ambivalence to food and nutrition a lot of times. (And sometimes even a belligerent attitude of "it's my right to eat crap.")
Somewhere along the way we've fallen down on eating right, with time, money and convenience outweighing health. I'm not pointing fingers - I've been guilty of it myself. Who doesn't love a good burger? And popping something in the microwave is easy. And I don't think it's bad to have that from time to time. It's just when an entire diet revolves around it, it's problematic. If I hadn't already stopped eating frozen dinners a year or so ago, this show would make me stop. I kind of wish everyone in the U.S. had to watch it.