h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hurray! Channel 4 started a series tonight called 'You Are What You Eat'. At last somebody does some straight talking about the that people are eating.

http://www.celador.co.uk/programmes_past.php?id=51

Too much stick and not enough carrot for my liking, but at least it's a step in the right direction. And not before time.

Fb

Oh, missed the first one, and I'll be in on holiday for the next two.

Dr Gillian McKeith is the one who promotes the "living Food Energy' stuff, in all likelihood. I'd be surprised if there were two people of that name with an interest in nutrition.

"Too much stick and not enough carrot for my liking"

But isn't Celador Jasper Carrott's production company? Made him an incredibly wealthy man too

Typical I marked the prog. to watch, then started packing stock for next weekend's event and forgot all about it! A series has been running in the Daily Mail by the same person. Must read it when I get time!



Websailor

I saw it Certainly an argumentative clash of dietary cultures. Not as good-natured as similar 'how to live better' series (Your Money or Your Life, The Life Laundry)

Gets some forceful points over.

Pimms

I wondered how much of the gentler side of the conversations were edited out. Having somebody listen and agree isn't such good telly as the grumpy shouty stuff we saw.

But there must have been a lot of awareness-raising and coaxing going on, otherwise the girl who was on last night would never have stayed the course.

Fb

I attempted to post this yesterday, but I must have been really out of it, because I found it this morning on a thread I didn't even realize I'd posted on yesterday!

Anyway, here it is:

I read the linked article about that show... I'm afraid that some of the comments to those people by the "host" of the show seemed downright rude.

Yes, they should know better than to eat so much of that stuff.

Yes, they should feed their kids better stuff than junk.

I suspect they already knew all that or they'd never have agreed to do the show to begin with.

So what's the point of insulting them about it? Isn't merely having your food sins exposed on national TV bad enough?