Jamie Oliver

He has scared me half to death.

I was watching his programme: Eat to Save Your Life where he basically takes a whole bunch of Brits [18 of them me thinks?] and documents their eating habits over a week or so.

Not that freaky, you'd think right?

But then it goes on. And, in the words of Hamish from the 'Hamish and Andy Show': I've basically been scared into not eating anything, unless it's a stick of celery or a walnut.

Jamie Oliver has documented their eating habits, put them under an MRI, taken their BMIs, figured out how much and what kind of gas they're breathing out, finding out their life spans, etc etc. The list actually does go on.
And there's something else about that show as well which sort of freaks me out. I am not entirely sure if it's been documented in other countries like South Africa or Malaysia yet, but if it does come out, I hope none of you will kill me for this.
He's got this German Anatomist, Gunther von Hagens, who disects people who've donated their bodies to science, and shows us how much fat was in this person. And it's not just one body, it's several. There's two people where he's taken a 2 inch slice out of down the middle, one fat and one skinny person, and encased in some kind of transparent foam thing. And then he goes on to disect this massive guy at the end of the show, and it's an actual dead body. I am feeling slightly squeamish at it.
There's even one point in the show where he gets this guy to collect his turds for a week, and then shows him this great big massive pile of 'five year's worth' of a Ugandan man's turds. [it's all just soil really] And then compares it with a rather insignificant pile of the poor victim's 'five years worth of poop'. [soil with a bit of the poor guy's poop on it] It was literally a tenth of the Ugandan poop.

So it makes sense how Jamie Oliver has basically scared me into not eating?

It makes good sense, though, what he says.
Although I am now perpetually on tenterhooks wondering what I would look like if I got sliced into a 2 inch slab before I start eating anything.
This is pretty stressful, considering my favourite hobby is to eat. Coming from Malaysia probably doesn't help either. And considering I've suddenly been exposed to such luscious German and Portugese goodies whilst living in Johannesburg, I dread to think of the state of my 2 inch slab.
I sound really emo. =/

Actually, forget Jamie Oliver, I think it's Gunther von Hagen that's scared me, not Jamie. XD

But it IS a good programme, so if it comes out in your country: watch it, and you probably won't regret it either. =)

Mishy <3