Three TED Talks That Will Change How You Think About Food

By By jaimie Stevenson 
Published on February 26, 2010
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<em>In February, Barack Obama signed a memorandum to establish a </em>
<a href=”http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-establishing-a-task-force-childhood-obesity” target=”_blank” linkindex=”39″>
<i>Task Force on Childhood Obesity</i>
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<i>, including the launch of </i>
<a href=”http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/02/i_dont_like_being_outdoors.html” target=”_blank” linkindex=”40″>
<i>Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign</i>
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<i> to address childhood obesity and nutrition. One day earlier, British chef Jamie Oliver won a </i>
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<i>2010 TED award</i>
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<i>, which will help him to launch a cross-industry initiative to fight obesity by educating families about food.<b>
</b>This week we will be looking at childhood nutrition by highlighting books and articles that have passed through our library of late</i>
<i>.  -The Editors</i>
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In our introduction to this series on childhood nutrition, we highlight the work of the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who won the 2010 TED Award and is using the $100,000 prize to launch an “eating revolution” in the United States. TED has been highlighting efforts to address childhood nutrition for years through its TED Talks. Here are a few highlights:</p>
<p>In 2006, <a href=”http://www.pmri.org/” target=”_blank”>Dr. Dean Ornish, M.D.</a> spoke on diet as low-cost, high-impact, preventative medicine… </p>
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<p>In 2007, <i>New York Times</i> writer <a href=”http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/” target=”_blank”>Mark Bittman</a> likened the cow to the atom bomb when speaking on the demands of our meaty diets on the planet…</p>
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<p>Also in 2007, “Renegade Lunch Lady” <a href=”http://www.chefann.com/” target=”_blank”>Ann Cooper</a> spoke on teaching children about everything “from growing to disposing” of food…</p>
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<em>Read all of the </em>
<a href=”https://www.utne.com/blogs/blog.aspx?blogid=36&tag=cafeteria%20chronicles” target=”_self”>
<em>Cafeteria Chronicles posts</em>
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