"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" is back for its second season on ABC Tuesday evenings at 8pm (and for those of us who are too busy, you can catch it on abc.com!) I got hooked on this show last year when it was in its first season, and even wrote an article for my youth newsletter about the show. This season, Jamie is trying to impact the public school lunch system in Los Angeles. He is being met with great opposition, and the school board will not even let him look in the kitchens, which is pretty sad if you ask me.Now that I am going to be working in a school next year, I feel even more connected to this cause. With all the health issues in our country, I was shocked at some of the illustrations he used to show what our kids are being fed at school. For example, he had a dump truck pump a school bus full of all the sugar in flavored milk just in Los Angeles public schools each week. The sugar filled the whole school bus and leaked out the windows making huge piles on the parking lot! And that's just the flavored milk in one city, in one week!
This is an eye-opening show for everyone, whether you are involved with schools or not. It's definitely an inspiration to think about where our food comes from and what we are putting into our bodies!
Good look Jess
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