Jamie Oliver suggests that it is our diet that is killing us. The biggest killers in the U.S. today are diet-related diseases, which are easily preventable. We cry and scream, "Ebola! The Zika virus!", but we hide heart disease, obesity, and diabetes under the covers like the corpse of a horror scene. We are killing ourselves, and we don't know why we're dying in the first place.
Obesity costs 10% of our nation's healthcare costs, and is supposed to double shortly. Money that could be used for education, a better police system, better roads, better hospitals, and a better society are being washed down with a glass of Coca-Cola.
So how do we stop this? How do we turn our lives around so we can actually live again? Oliver suggests that we focus on three areas: home, school, and Main Street.
At home, we need to teach children how to cook for ourselves. This includes teaching children where their food comes from, so they know the difference between fresh, natural food and overly processed fillers.
At school, we need to teach children about the importance of food. Schools today are fast food oases and food deserts at the same time. We need to serve children proper food that sustains life instead of destroying it.
Main Street refers to major food companies. The labeling of food needs to be less deceptive and easy for everyone to understand, despite their education background. Food companies today manipulate people into eating toxins through false advertising, factoring crucially into the cause of the obesity epidemic. They need to promote a healthy lifestyle instead of promoting deadly products.
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