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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Why the U.S. Is One of the Unhealthiest Countries in the World
  • Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:23:14 -0700


[Barb and I have kicked this around, and great as it is Jamie does miss an
essential connection. The snag as I see it: Huntington and the whole country
simply haven't seen the avalanche of evidence against the processed villains
- high fructose corn syrup, transfats, MSG and all its disguises, refined
flour and refined sugar. Without hearing this, all they hear from Jamie is
how our food is crap (which it of course is). And to his great credit he does
tie it to the cost of our degenerative diseases, and to lack of real cooking.
All in all, a major breakthrough.]

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Excerpts:

Chef Jamie Oliver: Why the U.S. Is One of the Unhealthiest Countries in the
World
'My wish is for you to help a strong, sustainable movement to educate every
child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people
everywhere to fight obesity.'
http://www.alternet.org/vision/146185/chef_jamie_oliver%3A_why_the_u.s._is_one_of_the_unhealthiest_countries_in_the_world?page=entire

Sadly, in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat, four Americans who are
alive, will be dead from the food that they eat. My name's Jamie Oliver. I'm
34 years old. I'm from Essex in England and for the last seven years I've
worked fairly tirelessly to save lives in my own way. I'm not a doctor, I'm a
chef. I don't have expensive equipment or medicine. I use information,
education. I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in
our homes that binds us to the best bits of life. We have an awful, awful
reality right now. America, you're at the top of your game. This is one of
the most unhealthy countries in the world.

Right? The statistics of bad health are clear, very clear. We spend our
lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide, you name it. It's on the
front page of every paper, CNN. Look at homicide at the bottom, for God's
sake. Right? Every single one of those in the red is a diet-related disease.
Any doctor, any specialist will tell you that. Fact. Diet-related disease is
the biggest killer in the United States, right now, here today. This is a
global problem. It's a catastrophe. It's sweeping the world. England is right
behind you, as usual.

I know they were close, but not that close. We need a revolution. Mexico,
Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problems of obesity and
bad health. Think about smoking. It costs way less than obesity now. Obesity
costs you Americans 10 percent of your health care bills. 150 billion dollars
a year. In 10 years, it's set to double. 300 billion dollars a year. And
let's be honest, guys, you ain't got that cash.

I came here to start a food revolution that I so profoundly believe in. We
need it. The time is now. We're in a tipping-point moment. I've been doing
this for seven years. I've been trying in America for seven years. Now is the
time when it's ripe -- ripe for the picking. I went to the eye of the storm.
I went to West Virginia, the most unhealthy state in America.

Let's start with the Main Street. Fast food has taken over the whole
country. We know that. The big brands are some of the most important powers,
powerful powers in this country. Supermarkets as well. Big companies. Big
companies. Thirty years ago, most of the food was largely local and largely
fresh. Now it's largely processed and full of all sorts of additives, extra
ingredients, and you know the rest of the story. Portion size is obviously a
massive, massive problem. Labeling is a massive problem.The labeling in this
country is a disgrace. They want to be self ... They want to self-police
themselves. The industry wants to self-police themselves. What, in this kind
of climate? They don't deserve it. How can you say something is low-fat when
it's full of so much sugar?

Watch the video:
http://www.alternet.org/vision/146185/chef_jamie_oliver%3A_why_the_u.s._is_one_of_the_unhealthiest_countries_in_the_world?page=entire






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