It was like déja vu, all over again….
Last night, I flipped on TV and caught part of a BBC1 re-run of “What Are We Feeding Our Kids?”
If you caught it, did it seem oddly familiar to you, too?
It could be because this has aired before. OR
It also could be because the Simpson’s already did this (Season 23 “The Spy Who Learned Me” 2012) — which was a “30 Days Krusty Burger” parody/mockumentary of the award-winning 2004 documentary “Super Size Me”
The premise of all of them is the same: a relatively healthy male consumes a diet consisting mostly of ultra-processed food for 30 days and – SHOCK! – is remarkably less healthy at the end of the 30 days.
There is nothing new revealed by the BBC’s shock-umentary. Nothing at all.
Like #OperationTransformation (itself an imitation of the problematic US show “Biggest Loser” 2004- 2016) – : All of these obesity reality TV shows and documentaries are merely doing the same thing over and over — and did anyone expect different results?
The fact that poor nutrition, food poverty, food deserts, poverty, and poor nutritional education have had huge impacts on our population health should no longer be shocking.
The BBC special aired in 2021 but with exceptions of social distancing – has anything changed?
Should it be more shocking is that we are still doing this 18 years later and how little in the way of international nutrition education, public health programmes, or food industry standards has changed?
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