Food+Revolution

In the world today, especially the United States, fast food corporations and processed foods have become a fast and convenient way to feed yourself and family. There are many complications that come along with eating fast and processed foods. Obesity, Diabetes, and other health issues can all be developed from eating foods like this. Today, many people do not have the time to cook a healthy meal at home, therefore, fast food and processed food companies are where people turn to for a fast convenient meal. This is becoming quite a large problem especially in the United States. With this growing problem, you could only imagine how it will just get worse and worse, and you may wonder when will it get to the point where it can’t be changed? It’s almost as if it’s a way of life to eat fast food for that “quick meal” before work.

There are different ways that problems such as obesity, diabetes and other can be fixed or at least slowed down. Things as simple as cooking at home meal every night or at least eating fast and processed food less can help prevent such health problems. Daily exercise such as going for a walk or run can also help prevent these problems. Knowing what’s good for you and what isn’t is another simple way to help prevent future health problems. Many simple measures can be taken too insure that you are healthy, and will stay that way. When Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver asked kids simple questions like “where does honey come from? Bears, Bees?” Many kids did not have a clue. This is a problem. If youth don’t know where their food comes from, then how can they be expected to know what’s good for them, and how will they grow up with a healthy lifestyle? And Jamie Oliver is the person who set out to change this wide-spread problem.

The same problem is also occurring in school foods. Many types of foods that are unhealthy have been taken out of schools now, and made to be much healthier, but many do not like the taste and think it is “bland” and “tasteless.” No matter how hard they try to improve school lunches to make them healthier, schools just aren’t succeeding at making the food taste good, and find that most of their food in the trash rather than in people’s stomachs. How would you like to eat processed, cooked, frozen, than re-heated food every day for lunch? The U.S. is proven to be the most obese country in the world shown in health statistics, and is increasing in youth. School food is one of the “Worst offenders serving processed food” said Jamie Oliver, right along with fast food companies. Jamie Oliver (celebrity chef,) is trying to start a “food revolution” and change how people serve food and let them know what’s in it, and what is good for them. Many students at school’s that have changed their menu’s to make healthier food for the kids end up just throwing most of it away. Jamie Oliver plans to try and change how schools make food to make it healthier, yet something kids would want to eat.

In my opinion, I think that if people really thought they had a problem, they could make personal choices to change themselves. It takes a lot to change a whole city, and many people don’t think they have a problem, and don’t want to change. The problem with schools, if kids don’t like what they see, no matter how healthy it is, they won’t eat it. If it doesn’t look like the food they are used to, whether it tastes good or not, they won’t be willing to try it. If they don’t know what is good for them, and are taught that at a young age, they are less likely to have a healthy life style without any kind of health problems. If people want to change, they should start with themselves. Nobody can change a whole community unless the people are willing to try. If they have their mindset to not change, they won’t. You can’t change people unless they want to, and that is the biggest problem with health issues.

We may never know if overall people’s diet habits may change for the better, or the worse. At this rate, it may not be looking so good. Who knows what will happen if Jamie Oliver doesn’t succeed. It almost looks as if people know what is in their food, and know its bad for them, but they do not want to change. That is one of the main problems of why this is such a big problem in America. Without the will to change, starting with one person, spreading to their family, and how friends and friends of friends eat, they all start with one person’s diet habits. If families change, maybe communities can too. Everyone can hope that Jamie Oliver will succeed and habits will change, but we may never see the change if people aren’t willing to try.