Rhetorical Analysis Of The Ted Talk

The TED talk starts out with Jamie Oliver, a famous professional chef, stating “in the next 18 minutes four Americans that are now alive will be dead, from food that they eat”. Then he talks about how America is the number one country for obesity and that on average your children will live ten years less than you. Jamie then puts a graph on the screen showing the number one cause of death in 2005 and it was heart disease; Jamie goes on to say it is because of what we eat. Next, Jamie talks of when he went to the most unhealthy state in America which is West Virginia. He shows a picture of Britney who is 16 years old and has only six years to live because of the food she has eaten. Britney is the third generation that has not grown up in a food environment where she would have been taught to cook. Jamie presents pictures of young people who are obese and states obesity does not just hurt that person, it hurts the people around them

One of the first times he uses logos, is when he tells the people at the ted talk “in the next 18 minutes four Americans that are now alive will be dead, from the food that they eat”. Mr. Oliver uses this statement to bring attention to the sad truth of todays society, and the food that we consume. Then he states that the United States is the number one country for obesity in the world, and that on average the people’s children at the ted talk will live ten years less than them. This piece of logos just reiterates his try to help teach adults to teach todays young people about vegetables. Jamie shows a clip of him in a class room with a whole bunch of vegetables, he asks the children what the vegetables are, and they do not get any of the vegetables right. He uses this clip to show that our young people do not know a lot of vegetables, and if they do not know about vegetables they will not eat the vegetables, and that we need to teach our young people more about