1. 09 September 2010 · 12:14 AM ·

    food obsession?

    I feel like recently the entire world has become obsessed with food. Maybe its just because my family’s favorite channel is now the food network and we get just about every food magazine imaginable delivered to our house, but it seems like the rest of the world is jumping on the band wagon. 

    There are now food shows on the travel channel and Bravo and they are even coming out with the cooking channel, a knock off of the food network. Food trucks are now swinging hotspots around town and you can go on gastronomy tours of just about every city. 

    Beyond this obsession, 3 out of 5 other people at my work are now on the South Beach Diet. Meaning that they pretty much can’t eat anything for 2 weeks to “cleanse” and they keep breaking the diet and having to start over again. How frustrating is that? To go for a week and then break the diet and have to start over again. 

    Either it is obsession with pigging out, or eating nothing. Not that I should talk much, but I feel like everyone else has since caught up with my obsession. Even my mom, who was always a “foodie” but never concerned with what she ate, is watching what she eats. 

    I guess it probably just has to do with this health kick that seems to be sweeping the nation. Thank you Michelle Obama and Jaime Oliver. If you haven’t heard about Jaime Oliver’s Food Revolution, you can watch it online. He essentially entirely revamps a city’s school lunch program and attempts to teach fat Americans how to eat better. While some people are open to the new foods, most of them would rather stick to their deep fat fried foods and fast food. Even though the people of Huntington, West Virginia didn’t listen, many people across America seem to have heard his message. 

    So there has to be something else driving this health kick and food obsession we seem to be going though… Either being obsesses with food or obsessed with not eating food, it seems like it is going to last a while…