Jamie Oliver's cookery courses really do improve your diet, say researchers
A report by Leeds University has discovered that people who took part in Oliver’s Ministry of Food courses increased the amount of fruit and vegetables they ate, halved the number of snacks and became more confident about cooking.
Oliver said the study showed that teaching people to cook can “make a huge difference”.
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Hide AdOliver launched his Ministry of Food courses in 2008, and now has four UK centres including in Leeds, Bradford and Rotherham.
Nearly 800 people who took part in the eight-week courses at the centre in Leeds’s Kirkgate Market between 2010 and 2014 were surveyed before and immediately after the course.