Good nutrition is not expensive. Although Alton's approach is flavored by his personality the main thing is he steered away from processed foods loaded with empty calories. If, like Alton, you bought the smoothie ingredients instead of the items you normally buy, you would find your food dollar goes just as far. Anyway, not using over processed foods should be good fodder for a TV Chef and he is a producer first, so he knows how to keep the stories interesting.

When are we going to see Paula Deen and other morbidly obese food stars on an episode of Biggest Loser Chefs? Alton Brown: you can do anything you set your mind to- so please pitch and persuade your pals to devote at least a few episodes to model losing weight to help fans avoid Type II diabetes, heart disease, stroke and premature deaths. Get as many as you can together as a team and make it fun for the whole country. In the meantime, for the love of God, family, and life itself, let's lighten up on the butter and calorie-unconscionable menus everybody! Don't wait until you or one of your loved ones suffers a stroke, a heart attack, new blindness, an amputation or kidney failure. Jamie Oliver broke new ground recently-and took incredible heat for doing so-in order to help our nation's school children, many of whom are at the mercy of the school district's food directors because they are the "free breakfast and free lunch kids" sentenced to "bad eats"-today's school gruel, which is an almost almost daily dose of chicken nuggets and french fries-oh, and and let us not forget the canned corn that routinely accompanies the ubiquitous frozen prepared pizza. Why wait until Mario or Emeril or even the Neeleys, who are younger- are hospitalized for complications related to dietary choices?