The British Health Secretary politely asked anti-obesity school
lunch crusader and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to please close his
yap, as he
turns out to be making things worse. Quoth Secretary Andrew
Lansley at a British Medical Association meeting yesterday:
"If we are constantly lecturing people and trying to tell them
what to do, we will actually find that we undermine and are
counterproductive in the results that we achieve."..."Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to
improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals,
but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals
in many of these places didn't go up, it went down."
In a study of 27 U.K. schools offering healthy lunches,
in-school lunch purchases dropped noticeably, up to 25 percent in
at least one case. To his credit, Lansley also rejected suggestions
that the way to force kids to eat Oliver's healthy lunches was
monitor the contents of packed lunches and prohibit local shops
near schools:
'Actually, where do we end up with this?', he said.
Good point.
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