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  • All good ideas, but its missing the X Factor that will actually enslave them to cook at home and eat better, thats the magic wand, we are basically programmed to eat kill and fuck everything infront of us.

    How the US is built is madness, with drive though's junk food linked to the road system and brainwashed on glorius amerifat tv.

    I really cant see the change happening, unless ads on tv go from black to white and the drive though's start to only sell fresh meat/fruit/wedge for home cooking.

  • Fat fucks must burn

  • 912 people are fat, ignorant fucks.

  • Oh great, another out of touch jerk fat-shaming people because the media tells him to. I just hate preachy skinny people who think they know my body better than I do.

  • @lordhelpus Quiet, fatty.

  • @lordhelpus

    I love a good troll post!

  • "but I like cakes and candy and soda" have you ran 10 or so miles today? you don't get any till you do.

  • If we got rid of obesity in America we'd save 150 billion dollars a year. We can rebuild the World Trade Center with that amount of cash.

    In other words, if we got rid of obesity for just 1 year we'd make history.

    Not sure how much of this statement stands true but it'd be a historical moment

  • @crazystarf Not to mention the US stimulus package bond debts to China are like 300 billion.

    That's only 2 years right there

  • fat fucks should be wiped off the world

  • The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) states "Health is a complete state of physical, mental and social well being. it is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". It is important to condition our minds through education, bodies through physical exercise and social life (friends and family) to live a healthy and happy life. It is your life and only you can make the changes. My advice is follow the path of success, success leaves clues.

  • God bless Jamie Oliver!

    Education is a wonderful tool, i want people to research body composition and nutrition. Body composition is your bodies proportion of fat to lean body mass (muscle, bone, organs and even blood). The higher percentage of body fat we have is what health experts deem overweight to obese. Fat is what we need to fight. Fat can be fought, as Jamie says, through proper healthy nutrition.

  • haha, a lot of people hate this video. Damn fatties, go to the gym and dont hate on Jamie for telling the truth .

  • Fuck you americans! You have the money to fix all your problems, but you are dumb from inside. When you learn to live whit less money (let say 300$ month), for 5 years, than you will be better. I just can't emagine how is possible, to have all that money and to spend them for killing you seld. This is just ... i have no word to describe this.

  • The part with the kids not recognizing the veggies is BS. Most kids have little to do with food prep and what they eat doesn't come to the table in it's natural state, so why would they be expected to recognize those things. What hype!

  • @CaraGia13 Are you serious? Kids know what they see and get taught, if they don't see mum and dad cooking of course they are not going to know what food is in it's natural state. All my kids knew what a potato was and had tried it raw before the age of 3. At school age they would have known most, if not all those vegetables he had shown and eaten a number of them in their raw state, brought to the table.

  • @CaraGia13 I knew what veggies where when I was little. Mum told us. She took us to the shops and we'd ask about what they were.

  • 912 are fat WT mothers who wish for their children to be the same.

  • lost at mrs Osama

  • I teach Family and Consumer Sciences, meaning I teach Children about food EVERYDAY. What about that? We do not need to bring food education into schools, we need to recognize and support the education we already have. People like me have been teaching this for years! I love this talk, but I also wanted to scream at him “I do teach children about food”.

  • Unhealty food is alot more dangerous than knives and forks will ever be.

  • 911 people are obese.

  • Ronald McDonald made 911 accounts to dislike this.

  • 911 dislikes. 9/11. Don't you guys see?OBESITY DID 9/11.

  • 910 were eating rubbish food when they watched this. Hope they have stopped doing that :)

  • Very curious. 2475 dislikes, 909 likes. But almost nobody who disliked it made any actual comment. The one or two negative comments have been pounded by the other readers. I suspect the dislikes were arranged by fast food industry PR. Otherwise where are the 'dislike' viewers who can actually say why they dislike it?

  • @leconfidant I think the people who disliked are probably used to very academic and visually aided presentations. Jamie was kind of nervous at the beginning of his presentation too. Maybe they felt that Jamie wasn't great at making a persuasive scientific argument or was too informal? I think a lot of the academics in the crowd had the right idea, he's a man that knows his craft extremely well, and despite how convincing he may have been he deserves tons of respect for what he's accomplished.

  • People who dislike the video are these junk food obese monsters jerks. They are so fat/obese their brain cells are not working anymore (damaged by the chemicals sugar in the food they eat). They go: fuck it my child can be obese monster too.

  • People who dislike the video are these junk food obese monsters jerks.

  • I can't believe you have to teach people about food in 2011 year.

  • @smilelikeUmeanit90 Actually, the trend of understanding food is fairly recent, starting in the 60s. In most of America however, people just don't seem to care about their food, at least not until something horrible happens.

  • I can't believe so many people dislike this video.

  • School does one thing - prepare us for work.

  • The proverbial "THEY" don't teach nutrition to kids & people because they want vitamin malnutritioned kids to grow up and suck down prescription pills their entire lives....bastards.

  • how can someone hate this video? (guess they own fast food joints)

  • child abuse.. never thought of it that way. So true! We're killing kids if we feed them what they ask for.

  • Oh, and to all the people who hated this: it's time to wake up, smell the decaf coffee and realize we are in a crisis that is bigger than ourselves (no pun intended)

  • Thank god for people like Morgan Spurlock and Jamie Oliver! I've cut down on my soda pop intake gradually (ex.: choosing Kool-Aid and ice water over Coke.) It's made me a touch irritable, but such is a result of withdrawal. If you have not, please read "Fast Food Nation" and "Don't Eat This Book". I hated school food, so from kindergarten all the way up to my graduating from high school, I rarely ate school food.

  • @JohnJacksonJohnson I hadn't heard about "Don't Eat This Book" and i'll def check it out. Thanks for the suggestion. "Fast Food Nation" is a great book.

  • I'm in high school, and I bring my own lunch, because not just that I don't like the high prices and food they serve there; I get SICK when I eat school lunches. Even a tiny bite gives me the runs or makes me constipated or makes me throw up or dizzy. Just the other day I was thirsty and the only drinks they had available at the time were pepsi and sierra mist. I took my chances with the sierra mist. I took two sips; then nearly threw up and spent an hour in the bathroom :/ fast food IS shit.

  • I think the most important message is when Jamie speaks about the last 3 generations not passing down a healthy relationship with food. In the west, industrialization created wealth and power beyond our imaginations, but in the process, it also created monolithic companies that offered a faster way to eat while profiting from the sugar addictions they create. It is a sort of deceptive abuse like cigarettes are often considered. We need to make change.

  • How inappropriate is it that our school forces students to buy a $5,000 8-month buffet?

  • Oh look! There were 909 mouthbreathers that watched this video.

    

  • To all those who disliked this video, please be honest, You're not perfect. Even I'm not perfect but still, please try to understand the situations that the world is facing right now. Killing your children through food is not a good idea.Please don't be stupid.

  • Jamie has a go at America, but it is not like he doesn't have some fun mocking his own country. He understands that it is weird for an English person to criticize Americans, but yet, he does not hold anything back.

    Awesome bloke.

  • Thanks to Jamie some people are opening eyes for the importance of enjoying your own food and cooking. Furthermore, his recipe rocks my table at dinner. I think people should start enjoying cooking like him and others. look how passionate he is about food and health. Cheers, mate!

  • i dont understand why 909 put thumb down... Why?!

  • @PS3H3R0 I think because it brings shame and the feeling of guilt to some people who hates cooking and eating healthily. They want to remain so called "happy" by bringing easy way of life which results in poor health which I personally think is not so happy way of living. Good food and knowledge of nutrition is a major contributor to boost someones overall QOL. It is great to educate kids from their early stage in life. It is the right direction to head towards.

  • I like the fact, that this talk is a like a big telling off to all those people. Well it was coming to them !

  • It's not just obesity that is caused by bad food. Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Arthritis... those are just the predominant "diseases". There are many, many other illnesses directly caused by toxic foods that are overlooked, misunderstood, and misdiagnosed! Bring on the FOOD REVOLUTION!

  • 909 people works for Mc Donalds

  • So about 900 people who watched this disagree with the message about healthy food for the children?

  • @kablamo9999 Hubris has the amazing power of completely blocking rationality.

  • 908 have nine years to live

  • It's the fault of the new world order companies poisoning us with chemicals tio kill us and keep us sick, weak and drug dependent.

    FACT.

  • @pixarian72 Stop blaming everyone but yourself yankee, You have the choice to stop taking unnecessary drugs & chemicals etc and eat proper.

  • where are the links at? i like that charlie bit me an also the cupcake song is so cute

  • 908 People are Obese Dickheads In Denial

  • To the 908 people who disliked this... that's ok, go die of heart disease because you don't want to be told that how you are eating is wrong... Jamie Oliver is such an inspirational and genuinely caring individual who is using his fame for the betterment of society and most importantly, the children...How many celebrities honestly do that? If I look up an American recipe I am simply appalled at the lack of fresh ingredients...it's all canned...and that's for home cooking!!!!

  • O god, not on TED!

  • 900 people are fat ass lazy dumb morons

  • Awesome talk and the Gospel Truth. In my home city in Nanaimo,B.C. Canada , there is no lunch programs and vending machines rule .

    I am moved to start a mobile fresh soup stand with an outdoor big screen educational TV screen on the healthful benefits of Veggies ,fruits and organics.

  • Brilliant thank you for educating America... Brilliant: Teaching a "Life Skills" course on cooking. I am in tears seeing the load of sugar children get in 5 years. OKay it is time to write my cookbook!!!

  • 908 people are fat Americans in denial

  • @midgysamurai15 i agree. they can,t admit that they always eat junk food 24/7 and they definitely Denie being fat.

  • DON,T SAY WE DIDN,T TRY TO HELP YOU BECAUSE WE DID AND DON,T ASK FOR OUR HELP OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY,S TO HELP YOU BECAUSE YOUR NOT GOING TO GET ANY. IF YOU WAN,T TO LIVE A LIFE OF BEING FAT BY EATING JUNK FOOD ALL THE TIME UNTILL YOU DIE THEN SO BE IT BUT LET ME TELL YOU THIS MUCH GOD AIN,T GOING TO HELP YOU

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  • 809 people are fat Americans

  • hes right you know

  • He is talking incoherent garbage. "The power of food has a primal place in our homes." What? "Your child will live a life 10 years younger than you" - or in English, 10 years shorter than yours. "Powerful powers in this country." "They wanna self-police themselves."

  • @equin0x80 It's pretty coherent to me. *shrugs*

  • He might not be the most eloquently spoken guy but you know EXACTLY what he means. He said he has Dyslexia.

  • 發人深省的演講

  • Be the change you want to see in the world.

  • wow that scene in the kitchen was trippy.

  • WELL SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT !

  • very nice talk

  • I LOVE JAMIE OLIVER.

    MY MENTO.

  • Good video.

    But if I were Jamie I would not be pro milk (even without sugar) because there is a lot of debate about if milk is healthy or not. Personally I think it is better not to drink milk.

  • @flotars

    Wait wait what? There is a debate over if milk is healthy or not? I'm pretty sure no doctor is debating over this because it is a proven fact that your body needs calsium.

  • @Shawaeon

    That’s just the reasoning the advertisements want you to believe. But it is obviously flawed. It’s not that if in a product has calcium it is a healthy product. Search for Health and Milk at unbiased sources at the internet

  • @Shawaeon you can get calcium from other sources though.

  • great

  • I remember when Jamie revolutionised all British school dinners. I was in year 7 or 8, and the school scrapped ALL unhealthy food (when I say all of it I mean all of it. no chocolate or crisps), brought in a salad bar, fresh sandwiches and drinks (no fizzy drinks), homemade meals every day etc! We even got a healthy vending machine with dried fruit and veg and juices.

    Gorgeous food we had! Thank you Jamie.

  • @ItsBethanyMai

    That sounds good. Although I do enjoy some pizza or burger every now and then, provided it isn't full of sugary and fatty shit.

  • I like my Americans fat.

  • All Americans! Pay attention to what Jamie says!

  • Great video!

  • good message but that's gotta be the worst TED presentation I've ever seen.

  • I've never seen him so passionate

  • He's right on track. . combine it with this. . . with growing vegies in our own back yard. . . and we are really in the home stretch of having a healing happen on the face of earth

  • @dorbie

    No dorbie i kid you i totally get your stance what was it again oh yeah jamie is evil... or what was it oh yeah no it was the i dont have a stance i just hate the guy....no i dont have a other option other than there is nothing good about what jamie is trying to do because I didnt like that one or two recipees that was on the show i hate vegetable and fruit because they only make a limited amount of dishes and yeah u just cant find it like in processed,,,,,jamie your a health racist

  • @dorbie

    so you have to be obese to be unhealthy.... so i can eat as much crap i want because i have been blessed with my dads metabolism KEWLLLLLL!!!!!!! No need for drug attics and alcholics to seek aid now either there as healthy as horses HEY Why not stuff ice cream in her bottle instead of milk with that Pshhh their's ritalin and insulin for that nowadays...

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  • @dorbie lmao lol Your so right horses is your obsession right "serial ravings" of everyone else being trolls Another assumption you wont die if you jump down a bridg so try it besides if your going to huhum lol assume that i am making assuptions (?) make a clear argument and your stance clear for debat or else you are going to be picked on

  • @adanrom

    I see you're still obsessively posting your deluded incoherent bilge days later.

    Seriously, seek professional help.

  • @dorbie "pratice what you preach" akw you may need help with compulsive lying dis wich is yet more annoying then your senseless trolling may be your the one incoherent here... you have no idea why you are spilling you "bilg" today huh? someone is very deluded here to think he is not the ### he truly is read between the lines... your making yourself a fool and basically not amusing me so if you want the last word i will grant it to you either way ur still some lame;(

  • @adanrom ummm..... what? I literally understood less than 30% of your post. Grammar please!

  • @adanrom Are people expected to understand that ?.

  • Who else here thinks dorbell is a troll

  • I will die

  • If your not putting good things into your body how will your body receive those nutrients processed food has none of that im not a vegan i beleive in hunting i beleive in local food. I not american im canadian acadian,(cajuns in usa) and supper and family dinners, hearthy food n outdoors and hard honest work are what i thought of being part of the amercian dream. Building family out of scratch and keeping them together with the simple pleasures of life...

  • what do you mean that shit..you mean that what you call the real food down home because that is what your eating with process it's basically poop because you poop out everything you dont need so yeah that is hilarious Go stuff your face and dont have kids apparently you have bad judgment and you would let them become misfeeded runts because you feel your patriotism attacked

  • @adanrom

    from my inbox I see why you delete more posts than you leave up.

    Not MY patriotism, I'm British. Try listening and discussing instead of retreating to your assumptions every time.

    I have a child and she's as healthy as a horse. If she wasn't I'd do something about it. I'm not obese either, again your assumptions failed you.

    Absolute crap about eating poop too, makes your ignorance clear though.

    Anyone who disagrees with you must be a troll, another useful assumption.

  • you're annoying

  • @ahabthewhaler

    That's OK, one day you'll learn to cope with the fact that there are people who disagree with you.

  • i don't mind if you disagree with me, all your comments were annoying. you seem annoying.

  • You display all the intellectual integrity I expect of an Olbermann fan.

    As I said, one day you'll learn to cope, now back under your bridge troll.

  • i see how you can jump to conclusions now i took many of my comments off because they were duplicates... i wasnt seeing them come up

  • @dorbie

    Troll troll troll troll troll.... im not a troll. just everyone who disagrees with others (me) are trolls I just flunt that word at others to protect myself from being called one. Im not anoying im just pointless now theres a difference... arg!! This is not madness it's Processed!! ...

  • @adanrom

    Seek help.

  • @dorbie

    Thanks for caring about mental help

    ( I need restraint you truly are a catalyst for intellectual and deep thinking..)

    I heart you dorbie you know that

  • @ahabthewhaler

    Stop picking on dorbie he luves his daugther and has no clear stance on health he just hates jamie (BAHHH)(ME SOBING IN A BACKGROUND OF COTTON SHEETS) He's not a troll he's as healthy as a horse and his daughter is a horse too she can pull a mac truck and she eats jelly worms for breakfast. BAHHH (INSERT ANOTHER SOBB) He may luve or not luve processe he may or may not be healthy who knows all we no is that we are trolls and we want more n more of Jamie oliver's good ideas snif

  • I sayed "it is basically poop" If im going to poop it all out anyway to me it is poop another think..... but yeah linger on that why ont you... since that's the only think you catch on Einstein...Another thing is make yourself clear when you say " that crap doesnt sell well here" ... You are going to be misunderstood...

  • @dorbie

    to be frank i never did say you are american i was simply describing what i thought of the good morals of americans and that Jamie is not perputuating stereotypes like You sayed he was... but merely perpetuating stats about 2 countries... and no i didnt assume you were a troll but you know what My friend freud would say so dont bother replying...

  • @dorbie

    Yeah she's healthy like horse she must eat donuts for breakfast and pizza at school and processed all the way cuz you seem to be against real food...so i say she come back again from school and you cook her a t.v dinner...that what i think jamie is trying to combate not more not less.... cuz if this is your kid....well i have nurses in the family and they too have the goosebumps at the thought of this behavior

  • Your problem, moron is that when you insult my daughter's health & diet you don't have clue 1 what you're talking about. It's ALL assumption. You watch one video, get all self-righteous and start firing off with your inane assumptions. People looking for food gurus to solve their diet problems are going to tend to know very little about food and you prove it with your bullshit about processed food being poop, your B.S. about "real" food and your uninformed defamation.

  • @dorbie oh and by the look at the feedback you receiven no one really care about you that comment down their ishhh pissed off a few now have you...

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  • Amazing. We need this screamed from every corner in America.

  • JAMIE YOUR A SAINT

  • Get the GMO poisons out of the food and ban fast food. I know that so many of you are addicted to burgers, fries and coke; but come on; not one of those children even recognized REAL food. That's appalling!

  • I agree with this guy, america has a problem with this. Just look around its too easy to obtain fast food when everybody is so busy these days. Check out the TED where bill gates says he wants to control population using vaccines, its great.

  • How can I get involved? I am a student documentary film maker, mother and community member :)

  • It's sad but most of americans are fat, stupid and ignorant.

  • and most from poland are whiny, two faced backstabbing bitch bastards...what i thought we were stating facts.

  • I totally support his movement to get back to whole and local foods, real cooking, increased produce and fiber intake. The problem with his argument is that you really do need to tease out obesity from diet-related illness and death a bit more. Certainly plenty of fat people die of heart disease and stroke, but the causal relation with most cancers is not nearly as clear (colon cancer yes, thyroid cancer, lymphoma/leukemia, etc probably not).

  • People are living longer this generation than they did in the previous, his first argument is bollocks

  • ...No it's not. This generations expected life span is shorter then the lasts.

  • Where is the m00t talk? more m00t.

  • haha! I wanted to pull my hair out when the kids at the school didnt know how to recognize the veggies! OMG! O.O

  • How is that even possible? What kind of parents do these children have? It's frightening.

  • If it´s possible to put this video with subtitles in portuguese (brazil) like ted

  • don't buy food that has corn syrup don't buy sugared cereals buy fruit and fresh vegetables eat meals sitting down together cook together have young children design a pretty table if you can"t respell the ingredient instantly put it back on the shelf eat baked salted garbabzo beans instead of chips (iron) drink water not sodas put cranberry juice in for flavor buy local support local growers GROW something Jamie Leave the audience with a starter program
  • I share your wish Jamie.

    Angelique, play-move and food expert

  • This issue was best addressed in Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle." READ IT!!!

  • I don't get why everyone is arguing about Vegetarianism. I'm not saying it's bad I'm not saying it's good, but theres no reason we can't just eat a nutritious diet of both vegetables and meat.

    If you want to be a Vegetarian, by all means go for it. I've met many of them and they were all healthy. But I've also met countless people who weren't and were just as healthy.Eating healthy doesn't mean we have to give up meat or something, just eat more wisely. But sugar and sodium input should decrease

  • I've watched a few of Jamie's 'regular' cooking programmes and kind of just 'let him pass' as just another TC-cook. This talk/TED-wish blew me a bit away, as I had NO idea of his involvement on this level. If buying JO cookware is supporting the efforts he talks about here, then OMFG I'm going to buy some pans, pots and what not.

    I've always been eating somewhat healthy because of .. grade school mandatory cooking lessons. Just stopping with stuffing your head with meat, day in, day out =step 1

  • I just do not know what to think about this fella. He is passionate. He has many great points. But why do I feel greasy inside after listening to him?

  • You ate a 'sloppy joe' while watching?

    They're pretty greasy ;-)

    But I would say his main point is : STOP eating so effin' much, you 'tard. And it IS a good point.

    But of course, "us" eating less unfortunately doesn't equal fixing the horrible resource distribution I'm afraid.

  • I guess its just that he seems almost too corporate to me. Even though, I agree with him for sure diet-wise. If we did not have an elite, and human consciousness reigned, there would be no food problems. More food produced here in the US than can be eaten in the world.

  • Coupled with the problem that noone really wants to talk about because of the implications, and some of the seemingly implied sollutions, and that is the insane overpopulation that just spirals upwards.

    morale: stop eating, stop f*cking .. or sum'in

  • This has surely opened my eyes. It's disturbing how only 2 glasses of chocolate milk a day could do so much damage over such a short period of time. I'm way behind you Jamie.

  • I'm skinny as fuck... i need some more weight!

  • Some people can eat fatty foods all day long and never get fat. Still, damage is being done to the internal structures of the body. The thyroid has much to do with this. There are ways for you to bulk up without the usage of hormones or steroids. Exercise, diet and attitude.

  • Stuart, beginning to eat a regular, balanced, healthy diet will contribute to your weight gain. For those overweight it contributes to a loss. Your body will obtain the fuels it needs to make muscle mass, burn fuel much more efficiently with a nutritious, healthy food.

  • never noticed the timer at 13:17

  • ok now here's the thing that i wonder about, we all know that the human population is increasing at an alarming rate, so would increasing our lives like jamie said, help our race, or harm it?

    thats what puzzles me

  • This man is awesome.

    I managed to cook some of the stuff he did and it was absolutely great.

  • We have the knowledge,and the ways to make this world a better place.For our children,for our society and for our planet Earth.

    Banks and Politicians dont want this...

  • if you prevent people from obesity and premature dying, then how would you solve the overpopulation crisis of the world?

  • overpopulation comes from africa and other third world countrys..

    look at the demographic of the USA and England, numbers are going down.

  • By forcing each family to have maximum of 1 child,like China

  • As life spans are getting longer,people are waiting later until having a child. If the fear of death from old age is removed, then the neccessity for having children early is also removed, you could have a kid whenever you want!

  • Great talk, I now respect this man much, much more