“In the years since, that laddish charmer [Jamie Oliver] has morphed, somewhat unexpectedly, into a crusading community organizer. “Jamie’s School Dinners,” his award-winning four-part series, exposed the shameful state of school lunches in Britain and made for riveting television — he and the school cooks working feverishly to prepare dishes like tagine of lamb that the students either refused to try or dumped in the trash after one bite. When he eventually succeeded in getting them to abandon their processed poultry and fries and eat his food, the teachers reported a decrease in manic behavior and an increase in concentration. The school nurses noted a reduction in the number of asthma attacks. Those findings, along with “Feed Me Better,” his online campaign and petition drive, were the impetus for the British government to invest more than a billion dollars to overhaul school lunches.”

Jamie Oliver is a stud. Diabetes and obesity are two of the biggest threats to American health. They’re intertwined with heavy lobbying from big food businesses, government subsidies, and all kinds of messy things. In my opinion, at the root of much the ballooning cost of healthcare in the USA. Michael Pollan dug in Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch and it looks like Michelle Obama’s getting involved with food reform.