All of a sudden things have gotten easier.

The first three weeks of the Perfect Health Project were extremely hard. Most of the pain was emotional. It is kind of embarrassing to admit that I had such a rough time giving up certain foods. I mean… it’s food. Fuel for the body. Not exactly something worth getting all upset about. Yet changing my habits made me grouchy, depressed and angry.

But that was the first three weeks. As of two weeks ago, everything suddenly became a lot easier. I stopped craving sugar, found a rhythm in my eating habits and even started to enjoy a lot of the foods I used to turn my nose up at. Who knew steamed peas and corn mixed together could be so satisfying?

This relief could not have come at a better time as last weekend I caught a plane for Austin, Texas to attend a conference for my business. Five days of figuring out how to eat healthy while on the road and I was more than a little nervous. I thought about packing a bunch of food to have with me or hitting up a grocery store once I arrived but in the end decided against this. One of the goals of this project is to see how much of a “normal” life I can lead while living in perfect health. That means picking up food at the conference and eating out every day.

I figured out, surprisingly, that it is pretty easy. Almost every restaurant has at least one healthy option. Airport food stalls regularly carry things like fruit and Naked juices (which are amazing by the way). The conference I attended had large fruit cups available for breakfast and the Mexican restaurant across the street from the conference center had amazing spinach burritos on their lunch menu. While there were still times that I could not find something readily available to eat, finding something that fit my diet was much easier than I expected.

There is, though, a dark side to trying to eat out while cutting out 95% of what most American’s eat from your diet. You become that customer.

“I’d like the cobb salad. But I don’t want the chicken on it, I’d like grilled salmon. And I don’t want the bacon bits either, so can you just put some extra avocado on there for me? Oh yeah, and I need the vinaigrette dressing instead of the ranch and I’m going to need that on the side.”

The waitresses were loving me…

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As I’ve now finished out five weeks of the Perfect Health Project, I am also starting to see some changes in people around me.

One night in Austin after dinner, my friend sat back, looked at his empty plate that had recently held fried chicken and french fries and then looked at my plate where I was finishing up the above cobb salad, and sighed heavily. His stomach had begun to ache and he was feeling sluggish. He confessed that he wished he had gone with the salad as well as it would have made him feel much “cleaner”. And that is exactly what he did the next night at dinner.

I have also seen several people in my life start eating better. My wife has decided to cut out sugar (her kryptonite) and refined wheat from her diet. Joseph, a guy I work with, has also decided to eat more balanced with more whole foods as opposed to the processed kind he eats on a regular basis. And my kids are asking for fruits and vegetables as snacks after lunch and dinner instead of animal crackers or pretzels. It is exciting to see this little project I have taken on impacting the people around me. Hopefully I keep inspiring people to give this stuff a try!

My doctor’s visit on Wednesday lasted over an hour even though he checked me for less than ten minutes.  He was fascinated by this little project of mine.  We talked the whole time about everything surrounding my manifesto.  He gave some really good advice and also offered to help anyway he could.  Some changes he suggested include adding yoga to my routine, so I get some strength training, along with integrating fasting occasionally as well.  My doctor fasts once a week and has also done extended fasts as well, all for health reasons.  He suggested I experiment with extended fasting that lasts at least a week so I’m going to research that a little more and possibly work that into this project at some point in the future.

We also went over my blood work and there were a couple concerns.  First off, my LDL (bad) cholesterol is at 130. This is considered “borderline high” by the American Heart Association.  My doctor is not too concerned since I am only 28 years old but said we would be having a different conversation if I was in my mid-thirties or older.  He is also pretty confident that my new diet will cause it to drop significantly over the next couple of months.

The second issue with my blood work is my vitamin D levels.  Vitamin D deficiency is one of those things that doctors have just recently realized is a major problem.  According to my doctor, one in six people are vitamin D deficient.  Since it is such a new issue, doctors do not know all of the ramifications of vitamin D deficiency, but symptoms include colds and flu, periodontal disease and cavities, depression and seasonal affective disorder, osteoporosis, heart failure and cardiomyopathy, high blood pressure, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, colon Cancer, asthma, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. The healthy range of vitamin D is between 50 and 80 ng/ml. Doctors get pretty concerned if you’re in the 20s and I’m sitting at a solid 18.3 ng/ml.

The recommended daily intake for vitamin D is 1000 IU/day.  For people like me that are deficient need to be taking a lot more.  My doctor recommends I get 2000 IU/day.  You can get some vitamin D from food.  Certain fish contains a decent amount of vitamin D, but otherwise it’s really hard to get it by eating.  For instance, I would need to eat 100 eggs or 13,300 grams of beef liver every day to get my 2000 UI.  Fortified milk contains vitamin D but I would need to drink 20 cups of milk a day to get enough which goes against the manifesto and my lactose intolerance.  So the other options left are eating a bunch of herring everyday ($$$), getting more sun or taking a supplement.  Since supplements are also against the manifesto, I’m going to opt for getting more sun every day.  With spring quickly approaching I’ll be spending much more time outside so I am going to wait and see what my levels are in two months before I start taking a supplement.

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Eating the right amount of calories every day continues to be the most frustrating part of this diet.  The combination of consuming food with much fewer calories plus only eating until I’m 80% full make it mentally taxing to keep track of everything.  If I skip a meal, which I’ve been prone to doing in the past, it makes it very hard to catch up on calories.  Or, if I eat a lot of food but it is all low in calories, I get 80% full quickly but end up with days like Monday where it’s 8pm and I’m lightheaded and grouchy because I’ve only consumed 900 calories so far.  Then I end up sopping up extra virgin olive oil with whole wheat bread just to get enough in my system.

Emotionally, the hardest part of this new lifestyle is when I go to the grocery.  Today I was wandering around looking forlornly at all of the food I can’t eat.  I even stopped in the bakery section to see what kind of donuts they had available.  I think I would have gone for the jelly filled today.

I’m pretty much regulated to the produce, canned beans and bread aisles when I’m shopping for myself but I have to veer off course when picking stuff up for the rest of the family and that’s when I start to get frustrated again.  I miss my old habits of eating whatever I want.  I also miss not having to constantly think far in advance about what I’m going to eat.  Three weeks in and living a healthy lifestyle is proving pretty difficult.

That is also one thing that makes this hard.  Three weeks in.  That means I have forty-nine weeks left.  There is currently no light at the end of the tunnel.  I’ve done thirty day experiments before and they usually go well but by this point I’m nine days away from the end.  Instead of 344 days from the end. Easter is just around the corner, a big time of feasting and celebrating in our family and I get to tackle it with no meat, candy or cake. Soon after that we’ll move into our family’s birthday season, again with none of the usual fare on my plate.

Why is this so hard?  That is a question that I will spend some more time on in future posts, but it is a question that is resounding in my head on a daily basis. Why is it so extremely hard, both emotionally and physically, to live a healthy lifestyle in this country?  Until this changes, we’ll continue to have the highest obesity rate and highest percentages all of the diseases that come with that.

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I recently hit the 200 lb mark after losing 25 lbs.  One of the great aspects of losing weight is trying on the clothes that haven’t fit for a long time to see if the weight loss has had an effect. Yesterday I rifled through my jeans and pulled out a pair with a size 34 waist.  I tentatively put them on and, with just a tad extra effort, was able to zip them up and button with no problems.  Success!  I went down stairs to tell Candace about it and as I was talking I stuck my hand in the pocket and found an old receipt.  I opened it to check out the date so I would know the last time I was able to fit into the pants.  The date was 10/12/2008.  A year and a half since I had to trade them in for a bigger pair.

I then looked over the receipt again and noticed it was from Kroger, a local grocery store.  Hmmm, what was the last thing I purchased at the store the last time I was able to fit into these pants?  Here’s the list (receipt shown below):

• 1 pack of peanut butter Oreos
• 1 pack of regular Oreos
• 1 box of Little Debbie Swiss Rolls
• 1 box of Little Debbie Zebra Cakes
• 1 Tombstone Pizza
• 1 pack of Tombstone garlic bread

I think that gives a small glimpse into how I became 50 lbs overweight.

“[The Sabbath] is a time to come apart from the things of the world.  It is something to look forward to.  You get to go on hikes, stop pushing.  I don’t know how to describe it to you.  I think the Sabbath gives you peace, and that contributes to your health” – Marge Jetton, 104 years old

“To cease” is the original meaning of the word Sabbath and comes from a description of the seventh day of God’s creation in Genesis, the first book of the Bible.  This eventually became a law for the Jewish people, the breaking of which could result in death.

While death has been removed the equation, this is still a regular part of the practice of Judaism.  From sun down on Friday evening until “the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night”, no work is to be done.  There are 39 rules that are applied to the “Shabbat”, most of which I keep all seven days of the week.  Rules such as plowing, beating wool and tearing for the purpose of sewing are rarely a problem for me.

The problem for me exists in breaking the spirit of this law.

“To cease”

Judaism doesn’t have a lock on the Sabbath.  A few modern day Christians, particularly the Seventh-day Adventists, still observe the Sabbath.  The Uposatha is a Buddhist Sabbath day meant for “the cleansing of the defiled mind”.  The Jumu’ah, or “Friday Prayer”, is held every Friday by Muslims and, while not a 24 hour practice, is often used as a time of rest.

Regardless of religious background, the focus of the Sabbath is to rest.  In reading about the various cultures of longevity around the world, a common thread of regular rest and focus on family runs through them all.  Therefore, I’m using the concept of the Sabbath as a way to remove myself from the normal pace of life once a week to rest and spend time with my family.  The rule of thumb is:

“I can do anything as long as it accomplishes nothing”

From sun down Saturday night until sun down Sunday night I will observe the Sabbath and do no work.  Here’s a few examples of things not allowed:

• No house work including doing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, etc.
• No “real” work such as checking business email, scheduling client calls, etc
• No running errands such as picking up groceries, returning a movie, etc.

The goal of the day is to spend time relaxing in preparation for the work week and spend time connecting with my family without distraction.

How does this relate to living in Perfect Health?

In the book Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy, Dr. Dean Ornish, in speaking on the impact of love and relationships, says, “I am not aware of any other factor, – not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery – that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of  illness, and premature death from all causes”.

While there’s been plenty of studies done on this subject, I’d like to point out one in particular.  J. H. Medalie and U. Goldbourt kept track of 10,000 men over a five year period.  They were tracking the risk factors in development of angina pectoris – chest pain indicating heart disease.  The findings were startling.  Even in the face of “high risk factors” a wife’s love and support play a huge role in keeping a man’s health “balanced” and substantially reduced the likelihood of developing angina.

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Fostering the love and support of your family is potentially the most important thing you can do for your health and is seen in all of the Blue Zones across the world.  Observing the Sabbath is the rule that forces time into my schedule to do just that.

The week started off bad with a major fail in observing the Sabbath. You would think doing nothing for twenty-four hours would be relatively easy, especially since a good chunk of the morning was spent at church. Instead, I couldn’t sit still for more than a few minutes. I worked around the house, wrote for this blog, went to the grocery and, in general, treated the designated time of Sabbath just like any other day.

What does it say about my life that I can’t take one day a week and relax? There was nothing that had to be done, yet I felt like I needed to be constantly moving and accomplishing something. The rule “I can do anything as long as it accomplishes nothing” got thrown out the window almost immediately.

As I moved into the work days things were going much smoother than the week before. I was eating enough calories, drinking my wine every night, getting my exercise in, etc. But by Wednesday, just as I predicted, the novelty of the new diet had worn off. My withdrawal from the sugar addiction had set in pretty hard and I was in a foul mood.

Wednesday evening I stopped by the grocery to pick up a few things and as I rolled the shopping cart through the bakery section I glanced over and saw the doughnuts. I shivered a bit and the Pavlov effect kicked in as my mouth filled with saliva.  I longed for boston cream, apple fritter and chocolate covered, cream filled goodness.

I paid for the groceries and drove home where I started chopping up the peppers for my veggie and bean quesadilla on whole wheat tortillas that I’d soon be eating without sour cream.

I began to curse everything and anything that had to do with this idiotic project I’d heaped on my own shoulders. I cursed Dan Buettner for giving his talk at TED that put this idea in my head. I cursed TED for inviting him to speak in the first place. I cursed myself. And I especially cursed all the vegetables I’ve been eating.

I just wanted a doughnut.

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While I would have been hard pressed to find anything good about this project around the middle of the week, some really exciting things have started happening as a result of this new lifestyle.

Thursday night after dinner Candace, Conner, Max and I crowded around the counter to make some whole wheat bread from scratch. Candace showed us how to do everything while Conner helped me put all the ingredients together. It was such a fulfilling time and it’s becoming a regular event around the house. It’s amazing what happens when the television is turned off, the computer is powered down and the phone is on silent. You’re stuck having to spend time enjoying each others company instead of being endlessly distracted by useless stuff.

The frequency at which I forget to do things is going down as well. One evening this week Candace asked me if I had remembered to do a few things that needed to be done that day. I had done them all. This is an extremely weird thing for me. I’m the epitome of the absent minded professor yet this past week I’ve followed through on almost everything that I needed to get done.

A big part of this project is that it forces me to slow down and actually consider what I’m doing. I can’t mindlessly stop at whatever fast food establishment is close by. I can’t skip meals anymore because I have to eat the right amount of food at every meal to maintain my calorie intake without eating past 80% full. I have to think about when I’m going to exercise, spend time with my family and drink my glass of wine.

This is an incredibly satisfying feeling. Instead of being constantly controlled and jerked about by my food cravings, work stresses and distractions, I’m now making choices at every part of the day that I’m proud of. The shame of shoving a bunch of donuts down my throat in the grocery parking lot is gone. I feel good about how much I’m exercising. I feel like a good husband and father with how much time I’m spending with my family. So many things I always wanted to be a part of my life are being forced into it by this striving to live in perfect health.

If you had asked me half way through the week, I would have said I was ready to abandon the whole thing for some artery-clogging pastries. But as I step back and take notice of all the ramifications this project is having on my life, I’m seeing so many more good things that are making it worth it.

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It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve consumed any refined sugar. What little sugar I have consumed has been organic, in very small amounts and in food that tastes no where near as good as donuts, cake and Lucky Charms.

Addiction – ad·dic·tion – [uh-dik-shuhn] – Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance

Sugar wasn’t a huge part of my three meals a day. I would regularly skip breakfast or lunch and would eat a decent dinner. My problem has always been the snacking. I could barely go to the grocery store without picking up a donut or three to eat in the car. If I was at a birthday party I would eat three slices of cake instead of one, always going for the edge pieces of course. If I bought a half gallon of ice cream it would be gone within a day or two. We’re talking zero self control. I would eat and eat until I got the sugar sweats and my stomach started to ache. I would joke it off but it’s obviously a serious problem. Why do I have to eat a whole bag of double stuffed Oreos in one sitting?

Because I’m addicted to sugar.

While there’s still some debate among the PhD’s about whether sugar addiction is real, I think there’s plenty of evidence to support it. (especially considering they’re still debating what the word “addiction” even means).

Back in the cave man days we learned to like sweet tastes because that’s how we figured out if those berries we found were going to kill us.

Bitter, dead. Sweet, live.

So we developed this appreciation of sweet foods to support our appreciation of living through the next meal. The problem is stuff that is overly sweet (like refined sugar) does weird things to our bodies. First off, it causes our brain to release dopamine. Dopamine plays a major role in the reward system of your brain. Basically it’s your body’s way of patting you on the head, telling you what you did was good and to keep it up. By the way, this is the same thing that happens if you take heroine or cocaine. One doctor in France did a study where he fed rats sugar and cocaine. After awhile he made the rats choose between the two. The rats picked the sugar.

Eating sugar tricks your brain into thinking it’s doing something good which makes you want to continue eating to keep the good feeling going.

Sounds like a “compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance” to me. And it gets worse.

Not only does overly sweet food effect our brain, but it kick starts a vicious cycle in our blood stream as well. Insulin is the hormone that helps maintain your blood sugar level. You’re probably already aware of insulin because of it’s association with diabetes. Those afflicted with type 1 diabetes get to inject a synthetic insulin into their belly on a regular basis because their body doesn’t produce an adequate amount of the hormone on it’s own. When we eat a bunch of sugar it spikes our blood sugar which kicks the body’s insulin production into high gear to bring the blood sugar levels back down to normal. Once our blood sugar is back to normal we start craving sugar again. And round and round we go.

So our ancestors just wanted to eat something that wouldn’t kill them and now our brain gives us a big thumbs up when we eat too much sugar. Time to check the box next to sugar as an addictive substance.

So it’s really not all my fault after all.

[The Okinawan's] consumption of dairy products and meat is nearly nonexistent. – Healthy at 100

As I read about the various Blue Zones around the world, there is a common thread when it comes to meat.  Eat little to none of it.  As Dan Buettner says in discussing the Sardinia diet:

Meat is a once-a-week celebration, not something you heap on your plate several times a day.

Everywhere I see it mentioned, meat is referred to as something you can have but only in moderation.  One suggestion was up to twice a week with a serving size no bigger than a deck of cards.  Seriously… what’s the point?  I’m thinking I can’t order an 1/8 pound hamburger in any local restaurant.

What about the protein?

This is the first question I’m always asked when I tell a carnivore that I’m not eating meat.  A quick Google reveals plenty of other sources of protein.  Many of which come highly recommended from the various cultures of longevity around the world:

• Peanuts and Almonds
• Soy beans, lintels, kidney beans, lima beans, split peas, etc
• Yogurt, ricotta cheese, etc

Why fish?

Besides it being another source of protein, fish contains Omega-3 Fatty Acids.  Yes, I know both “fat” and “acid” don’t usually show up on the recommended list of things to eat, but apparently it reduces the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease while improving your immune function and brain health.

With eating too much fish there is a risk in consuming high levels of mercury.  However if I avoid certain varities and stick to fish not raised on a farm, it won’t be a problem.  Below are the FDA and EPA recommendations for pregnant women and since everybody seems to spend a lot of time keeping them healthy, I’m going to follow along as well:

• Do not eat Shark, Swordfish, King Mackerel, or Tilefish because they contain high levels or mercury.
• Eat up to 12 ounces (2 average meals) a week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury: shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, Pollack, catfish. Another commonly eaten fish, albacore (“white”) tuna has more mercury than canned light tuna. So, when choosing your two meals of fish and shellfish, you may eat up to 6 ounces (one average meal) of albacore tuna per week.
• Check local advisories about the safety of fish caught by family and friends in your local lakes, rivers, and coastal areas. If no advice is available, eat up to 6 ounces (one average meal) per week of fish you catch from local waters, but don’t consume any other fish during that week.

Since any mention of meat comes with more warnings than encouragements and I can get the vitamins and protein in other places, I’ve decided to cut it out of the manifesto completely for this project.  Fish is still allowed as an extremely healthy alternative, but no cow, pig, chicken, squirrel or any other form of meat.

This morning Candace and I decided to take the boys to an indoor play park. We knew we wouldn’t make it home in time for lunch so we decided to stop and pick up some food at a fast food restaurant. Since there are very few items on the menu that abide by the manifesto, I went for the side salad, opting for the honey mustard dressing, to hold me over until we returned home and I could eat something more substantial.

After the boys played for awhile, we sat down to eat and I pulled out my very small, very manifesto-abiding bowl of veggies. As I prepared to rip the dressing packet open, the one thing that made me okay with eating a side salad while the rest of my family enjoys hamburgers and french fries, I stop to check the ingredients, just to be sure. Then my eyes settle on the first ingredient on the list and my hopes sink: “high fructose corn syrup”

As I munched on my dry salad I began to realize… this is going to be hard.

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I’ve done diets before.  South Beach, Atkins and vegetarian meal plans have all been a part of my life at one time or another so this first week of following the manifesto hasn’t been too painful.  Substitute almonds for ice cream and fruit smoothies for sausage McMuffins and I’m good to go.  But as with all diets, over the next couple of weeks I’ll grow weary of this and start pining for my old eating habits.  I see significant complaining ahead for Weekly Updates #3 and #4.

So I’ve dropped refined sugar and bleached flour from my diet, haven’t had a single soda or cheeseburger in over a week and am quickly burning through the vegetables that have been sitting in our freezer uneaten for months.  The other thing I’ve dropped from my diet is the amount of calories I’m consuming.  After a few days I started noticing that I was waking up refreshed but barely making it into bed at night out of extreme exhaustion.  I had a hunch that I wasn’t eating enough and after I began keeping track of my calories I found I was only consuming around 1200 a day.  Quite a bit less than the recommended 1800 to 2000 that I should be eating, especially with the additional exercise I’ve been doing.

Poor planning and laziness were the cause of my self-inflicted starvation.  There were several moments of hunger that I would skip since I had prepared nothing to eat.  Instead of taking two minutes to heat up some broccoli, I would drink some water and ignore my stomach’s soft pleas for food.

And therein lies a significant issue when switching from eating whatever is available to consuming only healthy, unprocessed foods.  Snacking requires actual thinking instead of staring into the fridge slack-jawed until I find something tasty.

What further exacerbated the problem was not planning ahead for the weekly grocery trip.  On Monday I declared my new perfect health diet and then made no significant changes to the grocery list.  So when I got hungry I didn’t have anything to eat and would just put off eating until later and try to forget about it.  Not exactly a well thought out plan.

And speaking of well thought out plans, my forgetfulness has been the bane of my existence as I try to stick to my new set of rules.  I’ve forgotten to exercise and frequently checked my email during my daily family time.  Old habits die hard.

Finally, after realizing I forgot to drink a glass of wine the night before (supposedly the easy rule), I decided I needed to do something a bit different.  On the advice of my incredibly wise wife, I started putting reminders into my calendar.  Now at 8pm every night my phone announces it’s time to eat some nuts and drink a glass of wine.  At noon my phone asks “Have you exercised yet?”.  And when I get home I turn off the computer and put the phone in a drawer to keep from absentmindedly checking in with GMail.

One thing I was hoping to report on were the results of my first physical.  The surprising issue I ran into here was how hard it is to find a doctor in my town that is accepting new patients.  After calling all of the recommended doctors in town and being turned away, it’s looking like I’ll be giving a second rate doctor a chance this week.  Hopefully have something of value to report here next week.

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” – Jerry Seinfeld

My biggest fear in life is getting old.  After googling and reading a dozen “Top 10 fears” lists and not seeing anything about aging, it appears I’m alone in this.  In my mind it’s one of the scariest things we face.  It’s looming in the future for all of us and the stats aren’t pretty on the subject:

• As of 2007 there were 1,368,230 residents in certified nursing homes – that’s pushing 10% of people over 75
• 88% of those over 65 years of age have at least one chronic health condition
• Almost 20% of older Americans suffer from a mental disorder that is NOT part of normal aging
• 25% of the elderly have experienced cognitive decline (becoming senile)
• 20% of people over 65 have diabetes
• 20-25 percent of the elderly in nursing homes are clinically depressed
• Almost 60 percent of people age 70 and older experience some type of loneliness

There’s two things causing all of these statistics:

• Bad diet and lifestyle which causes the diseases
• Our culture’s dismissal and marginalization of the elderly which causes loneliness and high nursing home numbers

One bit from Healthy at 100 that stands out to me is the following:

Few of us realize that there are in fact societies of people who look forward to growing old, knowing they will be healthy, vital, and respected.

I wonder what that’s like…

Just finished watching Jamie Oliver’s TED talk titled “Teach every child about food”.  Fascinating.  Here’s a few of my notes:

• 4 people in United States will die every 20 minutes because of the food we eat
• United States has the unhealthiest diet in the world
• Children are living 10 years less than their parents because of the food they eat
• 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese
• We spend out lives fearing homocide while it’s one of the least likely ways to die.  The top two are killers in the United States are diet related.
• Smoking costs less than obesity
• Obesity takes up 10% of our health care costs and it’s set to double in the next 10 years
• Obesity hurts everyone
• The home is no longer the place to learn about food and it’s preparation
• Fast food and supermarkets are juggernauts in the food world and we let them teach our children
• In most schools, the food served is basically fast food.  Hamburgers, hot dogs, etc.  All processed.  French Fries are considered a vegetable.  (Not in the video, but I’ve also heard before that ketchup is considered a vegetable as well)
• The milk served in most schools has almost as much sugar as soda

Watch the video to see more and to hear how Jamie Oliver plans to solve this problem.