Staff Blog
Will Jamie Oliver come whip fatty Philly into shape?
posted by Drew Lazor
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC is teaming with British chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest for a new series that gives healthy makeovers to an entire city.
Oliver will travel to the unhealthiest places in America and find ways to use nearby resources to improve local eating habits. The network has ordered six hours of the project from Ryan Seacrest Productions.
The series is loosely inspired on Oliver’s acclaimed school lunch project in the U.K., where the chef set about to improve kids’ nutrition. His effort to improve one school’s offerings, documented in the 2005 series “Jamie’s School Dinners,” shamed educators into passing new measures to ban certain junk foods.
A recent Men’s Fitness poll says we’re currently the 20th least fit city in the United States, a significant improvement from 1999, when we were ranked number one in overall fatassery. Will this affect our chances of getting Oliver in the 215? Let’s hope he and his crew realize that — numbers be damned — we are obese in spirit.
(Thanks Monica)
