Children Are Our Saviors, So Why Aren't We Trying To Save Them?

By "saviors" I mean the children who will one day make our world a better place by, I don't know, finding the cure to cancer or AIDS or achieving worldwide peace or stopping world hunger. By "we", I mean the people who feed these children, who make sure that there's something in their stomachs. 

I recently found a Ted Talk video by Jamie Oliver who talks about childhood obesity and how we need to teach our kids about food. I'll link the video here. He talks about how the next generation of people will not likely live 10 years after their own parents' death because of the food that we immerse ourselves in. Our health care bill for our diet-related health problems are more expensive than for those who smoke at all. How food is handled in America is a terrible sight with the most powerful companies being the food industries, labeling their foods the way they analyzed will gain the most profit with bright colors and words that people can't even pronounce. The children are being led down a dark tunnel of food-related problems and we're holding their hands. 

His solution for this is for us, the people who should know better, to teach our kids better about the foods they need to eat. I mean, there are some children who don't know what a tomato is. Oliver says, "If kids don't know what stuff is, they'll never eat it." We need to expose the youth to healthier food choices, both at home and in school. Food businesses need to put food education as their main front, supermarkets teach their customers to create easy, healthy homemade meals, and schools should have a garden that is tended and used for the students in home economics to make their own meals. The more children are exposed to this way of seeing food, the more open they will be to eating it and sustaining their fair share of life as their parents desired for them to have.