As millions of Britons recover from their Christmas excess and make resolutions to eat more healthily, Jamie Oliver reveals what is really in the Great British diet, and how it could be killing us. Using a series of dramatic demonstrations - including the autopsy of a 25-stone man who literally ate himself to death - Jamie, fitness expert Dr Catherine Spencer-Smith and anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens show 18 volunteers exactly what harm their terrible diets are doing to them and, most importantly, what they can do to change their ways and get healthy.
The programme is part of Channel 4’s The Big Food Fight , a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food production, animal welfare and healthy eating. With the worst diet in Europe, two thirds of Britons are overweight, and treating obesity-related diseases costs the NHS more than £3 billion a year. Experts fear that today’s children could be the first generation to die younger than their parents if nothing is done.
Jamie and the team reveal how a diet high in fat, sugar, salt and empty calories, and low in nutrients and vitamins, is a major risk factor for life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. And Dr Gunther von Hagens conducts an autopsy to graphically reveal the terrible damage the volunteers’ poor diets are doing to them, from straining over-sized hearts and damaged livers, to clogged arteries and organs smothered in fat.
Meanwhile Jamie offers hope and shows the simple, effective steps we can all take to eat better and live longer. But can the volunteers ditch their bad diets and stop killing themselves?
Wednesday 16th January 10PM
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Although I commend channel 4 and Jamie oliver for this series, I am very concerned.
I being a ex smoker and in 2004 a vastly overweight 52 year, who is now a marathon runner, and a Personal Trainer, have grave concerns about the facts and figures portrayed on the program programmes such as these..
You have rightly taken a cross section of people, but the correct way in which to change your life style AND LIFE SPAN is not just by diet alone, you have to incorperate the correct nutrition, with the correct EXCERSISE, this idea of just taking the right foode solves the problem gives the wrong impression to many people,
We need to start looking at the causes of why it is happening, not at the remedy,
ie The lack of PE and Sports Education in Schools,
also why not reintroduce Domestic Science Classes to teach children how to cook properly using Ingredients,
We so often see junk food and quick meals being used, and I am convinced that this is purely because so many have absolutly no idea of how to prepare a meal from ingredients,
Also although many people are overweight ,, and I do come into contact with them regularly obviously, please remember, everyone has the same basic physiological characteristics, but not everyone has the same build or physical attributes, bone density can be different,heriditory factors have to be allowed for, and work lifestyles are diverse, these all have to be taken into account when assesing a programme for someone who wants to change their unhealthy lifestyle, into a healthy one,
So Please, “IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE CORRECT DIET”
As I say I commend you for the programme but please portray the whole picture so everyone gets the full facts into the correct perspective
Not sure you can expect a serious documentary about eating and lifestyle choice as part of a season on C4. It was always going to be a cross between “its a knockout” and something equally silly.
Lots of enjoyable quotes from the ‘experts’ though. And the usual dross from Oliver to make things even more highbrow. He seemed at great pains to point out that just because statistics had suggested a participant had around six years to live did not mean it was so. True. She could have had one.
I was a gym instructure until i over done the exercise and now am a paraplegic. I am one off these women who had domestic science at school and P.E. and i have always done cooking at home with all 5 of my daughters who also do the same with there children. My girls also have healthy skin, and drink 2ltr of water a day some times more, my two younger daughters 19 and 16 are my carers, they shop really well with plenty of fresh fruit,veg, white meat and fish.unfortunatly as i am unable to move very much without being in a lot of pain i have put on weight. i have cut down on how much i eat i still drink a lot of water and i mean a lot. because i dont move around a lot i find i dont get hungry so the girls know how to make a really tasty vegetable soup with no add sugar salt or fat. Also like you say Jamie it is the way foods are cooked and what is added that can increse or decrese bad fats salt sugar. I am disscused with the way children are shown how to “cook” in schools is open this packet,add that packet, and you have a meal. Mind you the school meals have a lot to answer for. My daughters school dont have a lunch hour they get 2 20min breaks, what is that telling kids, just grab anything because they dont get time to sit and eat. i do agree with some of the comments from another e-mail, that we need to look at the cause of over weight people and teach them when they are young.I am glad i am one of the old school and not having to be growing up today. I am a single mum on a very low buget but we make sure what we put into our bodies is healthy. My girls dont have and never have had eating problems, or food allergies. They go to the gym.love to dance, and have to walk. Yes i am a very lucky mum.
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