Jamie Oliver and Cheryl launch a Facebook ‘live’ event featuring chefs from ten countries to encourage viewers to cook healthy dishes from scratch.
Food Revolution Day aims to highlight a global nutrition crisis amongst children.
“Right now if you look at under five year olds, 41 million are obese or overweight, and 159 million are malnourished and not growing physically and mentally in the right way.”
“In the last 40 years we have seen public health go from amazing to terrible.”
The chef has recently triumphed with his campaign for a sugar tax on fizzy drinks.
The British Government used the Queen’s Speech to pledge a new tax on sugar rich fizzy drinks, to be introduced from April 2018.
Source: Jamie Oliver has ‘never been more depressed’ about the state of child health
Access to good, fresh, nutritious food is every child’s human right, but currently we’re failing our children. Millions of kids are eating too much of the wrong food, while millions more don’t get enough of the good stuff to let them grow and thrive. We need to unite as one strong, single voice to force governments and businesses to create a healthier, happier world for the future.