Obesity crisis fuelled by lack of cooking skills, Jamie Oliver warns - The Guardian 7th November 2008

Britain’s obesity epidemic transcends class because for the first time in history a large number of people of all incomes cannot cook, Jamie Oliver told MPs at Westminster yesterday. Appearing in front of the select committee on health inequalities, the 33-year-old chef said the nation’s health crisis was nothing to do with class or money, but “knowledge”. He called on the government to invest £6.5bn in food education over the next decade - 10 times the amount it has stumped up so far to improve school dinners.

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