What I like about Jamie is that he doesn't talk too much, that I noticed, about weight to the kids. I'm specifically thinking of the 6th grade boy in the family he's working with . He talks about learning to cook, learning a skill, eating fresh, good tasting food, but he doesn't say anything about losing weight or "looking hot". So it does really seem to be more about health than apperance.
However, he does sometimes, especially with the cooks at the school, come off as abrasive, and I'm wondering how long the show will last because I'm skeptical of American's willingness to tune in every week to watch a Brit tell them what to do. Granted, this is addressed, which I think is a good thing, I could see a resistance. I wonder how the ratings are. I'm not surprised that the show is popular on this forum--but I wonder about how he rates with the overall population.
That being said, I think what he's doing is great, but he needs to be careful as to how he goes about doing it--food and losing weight are touchy subjects, plus the fact that he's not American...I can see people resisting to him as "not being one of us" (as they do in the show!)
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