The Naked Chef's New Show is Mmm..Mmm..Gooood.

Resident Food Network hottie Jamie Oliver's (aka The Naked Chef) new television series on ABC premiered this past March 21st to 6.20 million viewers (thanks wiki). I watched an episode, and I must say - as cynical as I am about network television, it was actually entertaining. What am I talking about - I love everything else Ryan Seacrest has done (Kardashians, American Idol), just nothing he says. 

Jamie Oliver takes on an entire town - Huntington, West Virginia named the unhealthiest state in America. His goal is to reach schools, children, restaurants, individuals, and even the non-believers. He is determined to drastically change the way Americans think about food.

Ok, opinion time --- I think that all the kids being obese these days is outrageous, and very sad. I have a thirteen year old brother and a ten year old sister and I can hardly imagine how having a young active healthy child around the house can lead to obesity, if anything the two of them growing up kept the rest of us active. Laziness has just become accepted and its our own faults for letting it get this way. However, i'll be the first to admit that taking vending machine's and soda dispensers out of public schools is not the answer.

The show is pure entertainment. He uses striking visuals to get his point across. He shows an elementary school what a year's worth of their fat intake looks like in a dumpster. He shows a critical radio host a funeral parlor that caters to the overweight boasting caskets that look like king sized beds. He asks young children to identify fruits and vegetables and it is immediately clear that they can't tell a potato from a tomato. Jamie Oliver gets angry, he jokes and has fun with the kids, and -spoiler- he even cries! Haha.

I think it's a great idea for a show, the right kind of show we need in this fatass country right now. No more bachelor or biggest looser, enough changing individuals physically, this sexy brit is gonna teach us how to change our minds. Just make sure you sit down to watch it with a heaping bowl of potato chips or popcorn (extra salt and butter).