- 05-11-2009 10:58 AM #1
Jamie Oliver putting U.S. city on a diet
Jamie Oliver putting U.S. city on a diet
By James Hibberd James Hibberd 54-0700" class="timedate">Mon May 11, 2:41 am ET
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.
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- 05-11-2009 11:00 AM #2
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I doubt we will ever see him in this part of the country.
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Wonder if he'll end up somewhere in Mississippi? That state was rated the worst in the US for the number of overweight people in 2008.
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- 05-11-2009 08:21 PM #5
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Portland just had a three page (fabulous!) review in the Travel Section of the New York Times on Sunday.
Don't think bad eating habits were mentioned....but a lot of other good stuff was!
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Here is the whole list. Oregon was ranked 30th and the slimmest state was Colorado.
The CalorieLab United States of Obesity Fattest States Ranking 2008 2007
Rank2008
RankState % Obese
2007% Obese or
Overweight
20073-year
Obesity
Average% Obesity
ChangeRanking
Change1 1 Mississippi 32.6 68.1 31.6 1.0 0 2 2 West Virginia 30.3 68.0 30.6 0.9 0 3 3 Alabama 30.9 66.6 30.1 0.7 0 4 4 Louisiana 30.7 65.2 29.5 1.3 0 5 5 South Carolina 29.0 65.3 29.2 1.3 0 6 6 Tennessee 30.7 67.4 29.0 1.2 0 7 7 Kentucky 28.7 69.1 28.4 1.0 0 9 8 Oklahoma 28.8 65.1 28.1 1.3 1 8 Arkansas 29.3 65.6 28.1 1.1 0 9 10 Michigan 28.2 64.3 27.7 0.9 -1 9 11 Indiana 27.4 63.2 27.5 0.6 -2 14 12 Georgia 28.7 65.0 27.4 1.3 2 12 Missouri 28.2 63.3 27.4 1.1 0 16 14 Alaska 28.2 65.1 27.3 1.5 2 12 15 Texas 28.6 65.8 27.2 0.9 -3 17 16 North Carolina 28.7 64.6 27.1 1.5 1 15 17 Ohio 28.1 63.5 26.9 0.9 -2 18 18 Nebraska 26.5 64.7 26.5 1.1 0 20 19 Iowa 27.7 64.7 26.3 1.4 1 20 20 South Dakota 27.2 65.5 26.0 1.1 0 19 21 North Dakota 27.0 64.9 25.9 0.8 -2 29 Delaware 28.2 65.0 25.9 2.4 8 27 23 Kansas 27.7 63.8 25.8 1.5 4 23 24 Pennsylvania 27.8 62.7 25.7 1.2 -1 24 25 Virginia 26.3 62.9 25.5 1.1 -1 22 26 Wisconsin 25.3 62.3 25.4 0.7 -4 24 27 Illinois 25.6 63.0 25.3 0.9 -3 24 28 Maryland 26.3 62.7 25.2 0.8 -4 30 29 Oregon 26.3 62.0 25.0 1.7 1 28 30 Minnesota 26.0 62.0 24.8 1.1 -2 32 31 Idaho 25.1 63.1 24.6 1.4 1 31 32 Washington 25.9 62.1 24.5 1.2 -1 35 33 Wyoming 24.5 62.2 24.0 1.2 2 32 34 Maine 25.2 62.9 23.7 0.6 -2 37 35 Nevada 24.6 63.0 23.6 1.2 2 37 36 New York 25.5 61.9 23.5 1.1 1 37 New Hampshire 25.1 61.8 23.5 1.2 1 34 38 Florida 24.1 62.1 23.3 0.4 -4 43 Arizona 25.8 62.6 23.3 1.5 5 42 40 New Mexico 25.1 60.8 23.2 1.2 2 36 41 California 23.3 59.0 23.1 0.4 -5 40 42 New Jersey 24.1 62.3 22.9 0.7 -2 40 43 District of Columbia 22.2 55.3 22.1 -0.1 -3 44 44 Utah 22.4 58.0 21.8 0.7 0 45 45 Montana 22.6 61.8 21.7 1.0 0 46 46 Rhode Island 21.7 60.8 21.4 0.9 0 48 47 Vermont 21.9 58.8 21.1 1.1 1 49 48 Massachusetts 21.7 58.9 20.9 1.1 1 47 49 Connecticut 21.7 59.2 20.8 0.7 -2 N.A. 50 Hawaii 21.7 56.8 20.7 N.A. N.A. 50 51 Colorado 19.3 55.7 18.4 0.8 -1 Rankings were computed by CalorieLab based on a three-year average of state-by-state statistics for adult obesity percentages from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System database. Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30.0 or over, overweight as a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9. 2004 BMI data was not collected in Hawaii, so a three-year obesity average could not be computed for the 2007 rankings.
http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/0...t-states-2008/
Most of all, cook from the heart, and you’ll never be lonely when the dinner bell rings! - Chef Robert Irvin
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