Walter Willett (right), chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a featured speaker in the Bite! 2012 Sagan National Colloquium at OWU, recently awarded the Healthy Cup Award to television personality, food activist, and internationally acclaimed chef Jamie Oliver (center) on May 22, 2012 at a packed ceremony at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston. More than 500 people came to see Oliver, star of TV series such as Naked Chef and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, receive the award.
In presenting the Healthy Cup to Oliver, Walter Willett cited Oliver’s “extraordinarily wide-ranging efforts to combat childhood obesity, through your television programs, your foundation, and Food Revolution Day, and your focus on making healthier food available to children in schools and at home.” He added, “The importance of fighting this epidemic, especially among children, cannot be overstated. We are already seeing parts of the American population where life expectancy is declining.”
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