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Jamie Oliver Wins TED Prize for Obesity Efforts - New York Times (blog)- Childhood Obesity News

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Jamie Oliver , the chef who prodded the British government to overhaul the nation’s school lunch program, was awarded the $100,000 TED Prize on Wednesday at the annual TED conference, a series of lectures by experts from a wide range of fields including science, religion, and economics. On Dinerâs Journal, the Dining blog of The New York Times, our staff and correspondents discuss dining out, news about restaurants, thoughts about eating and drinking, issues about food, food politics and food policies, and fully substantiated gossip. The main contributors are Sam Sifton , chief restaurant critic; Pete Wells , Dining editor; Julia Moskin , Kim Severson , Glenn Collins , Florence Fabricant and Oliver Strand , reporters; Marian Burros , reporter emeritus; Emily Weinstein , Dining’s web producer; and Nick Fox , the deputy Dining editor and editor of the blog. A look at articles on working conditions in the food industry, the effects of advertising on what children eat, the Vendys trying to go national and on how to shoot your food. Read Childhood Obesity

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