Eating Healthy in the Media

I’m sensing some mixed messages in the media at the moment. And I know that I can’t be the only one seeing it. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see … and if you can’t, what’s wrong with you?
Come on, you know what I’m talking about …
Actually maybe not … I haven’t yet specified what I’m talking about.
Oops.
What I’m talking about is the whole eating healthy message the government seems so desperate to promote.
There. Now we’re on the same page.
But you know what I mean, right?
All over the TV, radio and possibly even billboards, there’s ads about how we should eat three servings of fruit and five servings of vegies everyday. And anything low fat is good, since high fat in food kind of undoes the fruit and veg you’ve been eating. The same goes with salt. Low salt is preferable.
So listening/watching the ads, we know that if we want to live and eat healthy we need to eat plenty of fruit and veg and make sure that we consume/use as little fat and salt as possible.
It’s just that simple.
But thanks to Channel Ten, and their latest successful TV show, most of Australia has been busy watching Master Chef.
You know, it sounds good. It sounds like a nice easy way to promote the healthy eating message.
Well, let’s face it; the public is notoriously stupid. Their children even more so. Therefore it would take something as hot as Master Chef to help promote eating healthy. Maybe then some people would actually heed it.
But after watching any episode of Master Chef, it quickly becomes very apparent that the show doesn’t promote healthy eating. It doesn’t even come close to doing anything even resembling healthy.
Everyone, judges, contestants and guest chef’s alike, doesn’t seem to think a dish can be any good without a very liberal amount of oil (plus a little extra for good measure), a huge amount of butter, and a “pinch” of salt, which looks more like a handful at best.
You’d think that today, with everyone being so concerned about healthy and the rising levels of obesity, that fatty looking foods would be bypassed in favour of food a little more heart smart. I’d have thought that whoever’s in charge of such things would’ve made Master Chef do much healthier food. Even if it’s at least a token effort at healthier.
Apparently the public isn’t the only stupid group of people in the country.