I saw Jamie Oliver’s ‘Eat to save your life’ the other night. Although I do like his food that he cooks I find this guy is becoming increasingly arrogant, condescending and patronising. The idea of the show was to tell us what happens on a diet of junk food. One of his examples is he got a body of a dead fat man and a dead thin man and sliced them in half and you could see where the fat was in and around the body. He said that this is what happens on a diet of junk food. However, they had NO idea if the fat man or thin man had eaten junk food of course.
But what really got my back up was when Jamie and this ‘doctor’ lined a group of people up in a row from thinnest to fattest based off BMI. They then proceeded to tell the fat ones that they were going to die early based on their BMI. However, the doctor had this little smirk on her face as if she just couldnt wait to get on her high horse and feel morally superior by giving these people the ‘bad news’. Furthermore, later on when they were doing something else this old lady who was still standing in the line broke down and started crying. They had to go back to her and ask her what was up. She said that she only had about five years to live from what they told her. Even though they said ‘where not here to make you feel bad’ what did they EXPECT!!!! This lady was normal looking – people put on weight as they get older. You would not have looked at her and thought she was fat for her age. But they made this poor woman feel like she was about to die.
We know from scientific evidence that trying to predict someones mortality based off their BMI is a crock of shit (see here). We also know that Jamie Oliver is a cook (and a good one) but really has no qualifications to tell people what they should or should not be eating. So that leaves me with the feeling that he is a patronising, condescending wanker. If he wants people to eat well then he should do what he does best and thats get people passionate about cooking good food not talking nonsense.
Wow! This sounds crazy! I haven’t seen this but I can imagine how awful it was!
Awful. He is awful. Talk about a god complex.
The restaurant ‘Fifteen’ sucks. Jamie Oliver is so pretentious, his restaurant is a load of shite! I can’t believe people fall for his over priced utter shit. Ugh, what a rip off, go to a real restaurant. All upper class people go to a decent restaurant, lower class people will do better at a greasy spoon! Avoid this drok!!!
Jamie Oliver is the epitome of middle class wannabe wankers! Nobody with any sense of decency (lower or upper class) will admit to being a fan!! Don’t fall victim to the marketing crud…