{"id":66,"date":"2010-02-14T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/jamie-olivers-ted-prize-wish\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:13:28","slug":"jamie-olivers-ted-prize-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/jamie-olivers-ted-prize-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"

I follow the great chef Jamie Oliver<\/a> on twitter (@Jamie_Oliver<\/a>) and knew he had been award the 2010 TED Prize<\/a>. He mentioned on his twitter account about it and then linked to his speech after wards. I opened the link in my browser and figured I would back to them.<\/p>\n

Last night I could not sleep because I had a few things on my mind. So I noticed that my good friend Justin Thorp<\/a>(@thorpus<\/a>) had written on his food blog (Justin Loves Food<\/a>) an article about Jamie\u2019s prize. It was entitled \u201cSeriously, Watch Jamie Oliver\u2019s TED Talk About Food Education!<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 I read this post and watched Jamie\u2019s TED prize video<\/a> and the following is the comment I left on his blog.<\/p>\n

My Response to Jamie\u2019s TED Prize Talk<\/h3>\n

The following is my response to reading Justin’s blog post and then watching Jamie Oliver\u2019s TED Prize wish. I felt so passionately about it I created my own blog post so more people will be able to see it an hopefully help with the problem.<\/p>\n

I have been following Jamie Oliver for a few years on his different cooking show and have been a big fan of his style of cooking. I even watched Jamie\u2019s series on how to improve the British school lunch system.<\/p>\n

It took a bit of time to get the parents, students, and even the lunch ladies to start realizing that real food was better for the students. Once the students started eating better they paid more attention in classes and improved their grades and all they did was improving their eating habits at school and at home.<\/p>\n

While at TEDxMidAtlantic<\/a> this last fall (2009) there was a great talk by Tony Geraci<\/a>, who is a “Fresh Food Advocate” for the city of Baltimore. You really need to watch Tony talk passionately about getting kids foods that are good for them. I strongly recommend that you watch his video from TEDxMidAtlantic – http:\/\/tedxmidatlantic.com\/live\/#TonyGeraci<\/a><\/p>\n

So impressed with Jamie\u2019s idea that I’m up at 3:25 AM after watching his TED wish that I\u2019m writing this comment to make sure I get this out to you and your followers.<\/p>\n

I know I have a way to go myself to improving my food habits and health. By starting to do more home cooking myself and bringing my lunch to work that will help me out in the long run. Doing so will improve my health without a lot of extra effort and if I add some exercise it will make it even easier.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> I even listed to Tony\u2019s whole talk while writing this comment. Please take the time to watch both of these powerful videos.<\/p>\n

Start with Yourself<\/h3>\n

Please watch both Jamie\u2019s TED talk and Tony\u2019s TEDxMidAtlantic talk, along with read all the linked articles.<\/p>\n

Finally, please start with yourself and spend more time cooking real food as Tony says. This will make you fell better and set a good example for others and even your children if you have any.<\/p>\n

I plan on improving my eating habits and if you see me straying please remind me of that fact.<\/p>\n

What do you think you can do to help improve this countries obesity problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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