The Importance Of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Children are the future of the world and they deserve to grow up in a society that will fight for their healthier and merrier lives. . These words spoken by the British chef, lead to a new movement that fights the war against children’s obesity in US schools. Jamie Oliver’s dream is to wake up parents, teachers and directors and get them active in the role of saving the future of the world, in saving the lives of children through simple but significant changes. However, by focusing on the importance of the revolution, the changes made in the schools, the effects of the changes and the first results of his food revolution it can be seen whether this revolution may take part and succeed in Macedonia. According to Oliver, educating people is important thing to do in order to make them support his revolution. Presenting the importance of eating healthy food, explaining how it protects our body from diseases and how it saves our lives are the starting points of his food revolution. For example, he succeeds in this by giving cooking lessons to children from which they learn how to make distinction between the unhealthy food served in their schools and the new healthy food presented to them. Moreover, in a TED Talk, Jamie Oliver claims that if children know how their body benefits …show more content…
According to a report by the Health Research Center at West Virginia University on the initial evaluation of school-based meal changes, the revolution was not well-accepted, despite the benefits from the nutrient analysis. It showed that students in the school in Huntington, West Virginia, one of the places where the revolution took place, preferred the old menu, and that it had negative impact on their meal participation and milk consumption. Also, the report showed that these menu changes increased the costs for the meals and the equipment required