I have become a huge fan of Jamie after originally (like many people) hating him. But this garbage did his reputation no favours at all and was even worse than Fowl Dinners a few days previously.
This will be a short review since I haven't finished watching it yet and I'm not sure if I will. It was just pure tabloid trash with lots and lots of pseudo-science from so-called nutritionists. Add to this the German bloke who cuts dead people up and displays it, and you had a recipe for a programme that makes Big Brother look intellectual.
The intent was good - get people to understand the effect of eating badly on their bodies. But it was so preachy, so heavy handed and so amateurishly made, it will have minimal effect on those who need to listen most.
Slicing a 25 stone man in half along with a 12 stone man, to show fat deposits - yawn. Putting a woman in a bath and filling it with vegetable oil - double yawn. Showing how much crap come out of an average Ugandan - kinda funny. A woman realising on the show that statistically she only had seven years left to live - actually a great TV scene.
Is anyone in nice middle class right-on Channel4 going to research and study the demographics of who watched the Food Fight programmes. Gosh I wonder will it be nice middle class right-on Channel 4 viewers?
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