All I can say about "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" is ... it's about time! The standard American diet filled with processed and fried food, tons of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and huge amounts of sodium is leading us to an early death.

I mean, look at us! We are the most overweight country on the planet and are among the least healthy, despite being one of the wealthiest. We're dropping dead of heart attacks and are getting Type 2 diabetes at record rates. This was not the case 100 years ago when people ate real food and got a lot more exercise in the course of their day.

America needs nothing short of a food revolution if we are to stop the rising rates of obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Jamie Oliver has stepped in to help educate people about what they are eating and showing them how processed foods are slowly killing them and their children, and unfortunately has gotten a lot of grief for doing so.

He encountered a lot of resistance from people who did not like the idea of him telling them what they should eat. It was evident though that they needed some help in making healthier food choices because they had no idea that the frozen pizza, chicken nuggets and soda they were eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner were a large part of the cause of their problems with obesity.

It's not that people are stupid (except maybe for the DJ at the radio station Jamie visited, that's one guy a few cans short of a six-pack!), but that most of us have been raised with processed food since birth. We've always eaten it, so why should we think it's bad for us? But we need to start asking some questions as to why our collective weight keeps increasing and what eating the standard American diet is doing to our health.

The scene in which he goes into a classroom with some different vegetables and asks them what they are is just frightening. None of the children could identify even one of the simple whole vegetables he brought in, such as tomatoes, broccoli, and potatoes. They had no trouble, however, identifying a chicken nugget or a french fry.

The thing is, it's really not difficult to eat healthy and it doesn't mean you have to eat lettuce every day. As Jamie showed, it takes only a short time to cook up a simple meal of spaghetti with homemade sauce that's not from a jar, and where you can add tasty herbs and spices that are healthy for you instead of the junk like HFCS and sodium that food manufacturers add to try to make things taste good.

A handful of basil, some oregano, fresh ground pepper and natural sea salt added to chopped fresh tomatoes and olive oil makes a quick and delicious spaghetti sauce.

Join the revolution, for your and your children's sake!