The World Health Organization statistics reveal that more than 42 million children worldwide under the age of five are overweight or obese. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is now educating children about healthy eating. Aboard an open-top London bus circling Britain's parliament, his audience of schoolchildren, some dressed as onions and bananas, lapped up the message and vocally backed the chef's petition calling on all G20 countries to make food education compulsory, chanting 'sign it, share it!' The petition, signed by over 1.2 million people from around the world, is part of 'Food Revolution Day', set up by the chef four years ago to tackle the growing problem of diet-related diseases. Oliver advocated teaching children how to put seed in the ground, grow something, pick it, cook it and eat it in a group.
Oliver said, "The most dangerous thing for our communities is when children don't know what a potato is, or a tomato, and that exists all over Europe. Food revolution day is a global day of action. It's about the broken food system, about farming and about junk food, about how we are killing our children. I'm just a messenger."
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Oliver, star of the TV series 'Naked Chef', has enlisted the help of celebrity pals including sprinter Usain Bolt and singers Paul McCartney and Ed Sheeran in pushing to put compulsory food education on the school curriculum. The 39-year-old chef has already successfully lobbied to improve the standard of Britain's school meals and now has his sights set on France, despite its rich culinary history.
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Oliver slammed cereal manufacturers, saying that they had brainwashed us about being great and we know it's all rubbish. He said, "The bad people in the food industry will even brainwash French people. That's my wish today- that France gets behind a funny little English boy on a red double decker bus with a lot of English kids. Britain is in a lot of trouble, but could learn from France's introduction of a tax on sugary drinks. I would like to come to France and talk to your ministers about that sugar tax, why they did it and where the money goes."
Source: Medindia
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