McMasterchef's 'irresponsible' gourmet now on the menu - WA today

Fitness expert Jackie Warner.

Fitness expert Jackie Warner.

Australians need to stop binging on tabloids and lifestyle TV shows in order to trim down and improve their nutritional IQ, according to fitness expert Jackie Warner.

"Australians, in term of nutritional savvy, are ten years behind Americans," the celebrity trainer and author said.

"Weight loss is the main hot topic in our country, so Australia has some catching up to do in terms of basic knowledge.

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"We've got a real epidemic of toxicity in our food in the States and because of that there's a real call to health.

"It is also because we are completely celebrity obsessed and body conscious in our country so there's a lot of information being discussed," she said.

On a recent trip to Australia, Ms Warner was shocked by Australi ans' lack of basic knowledge regarding health and nutrition.

"People were asking me questions like, 'I want to cut out carbs so should I cut out chicken?' and just other basic things like 'what are good carbs, fats and protein?'" she added.

She blamed top-rating TV series, like Masterchef and The Biggest Loser, for promoting "irresponsible and unrealistic" ideas about food and fitness to an already ill-informed Australian public.

"With the epidemic of obesity and the epidemic of weight gain over the last 20 years in Australia and the US there is no place and no room to be emulating the recipes of these chefs," he said.

"Think of all the fats, butters, sauces and sugars they use, I'm not a fan because of that situation. It's irresponsible cooking and I don't care for that.

"So anybody that's an irresponsible chef is not someone I'm going to get behind.

"Many of them have struggled with their own weight. Cooking show host Rachael Ray in the US has struggled with her own weight for some time now so it's clearly not really working for them in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle."

Locally, Masterchef judge and food critic Matt Preston has spoken out about his weight issues during the three seasons of the popular show. It was reported last year that on set he once ate 11 serves of bone marrow risotto in one sitting.

"Shows like The Biggest Loser are great because they make such a huge change, but the problem is the ratio of people that gain weight after," she said.

"The ratio is very high and they don't like to talk about that but it's very, very high because it's not realistic.

"They [the contestants] train for six to eight hours a day and on a 1200 calorie-a-day diet on the show. It's not achievable in real life."

No stranger to the format of reality TV, Ms Warner's two successful shows, Work Out and Thintervention, revolved around her popular celebrity-infested Beverly Hills gym a nd DIY fitness programs.

Since then she has become a talk show favourite, spreading the word of her latest weight loss gospel, This Is Why You're Fat (and How to Get Thin Forever), to everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Tyra Banks.

Before Madonna's ex-trainer and Gwyneth Paltrow's now business partner Tracy Anderson shot to fame with her 30-Day Method diet, Ms Warner was the 'it' trainer celebrities like Paul McCartney, Anne Hathaway and Julia Roberts looked to in order to shed the fat, fast.

"My specialty is that I work with celebrities that only have a short time to get very fit and to lose like 5 kilograms," she said.

However while she accompanies celebrities on their weight loss journey she refuses to endorse their lifestyle and indulge in the slim but unfit 'skinny fat' trend.

"Do not look to celebrities for a healthy lifestyle," she said.

"I can tell you since working with a lot of celebrities, they do not have a healthy lifestyle.

"Some of them do, like Jessica Biel she's a healthy, fit woman you can tell and she works out every day, she eats a really balanced meals.

"Don't go looking to people like Posh [Victoria Beckham] or Nicole Ritchie, who it used to be.

"I found her body to be disgusting it was skinny fat and you don't want to emulate the women that are emaciated with hanging skin.

"It ages them, you look a lot older with only a tiny bit of fat in your system it is not sexy, it is not attractive.

"Australians really need to stop trying to emulate us, take heed and look at us as a warning sign and focus on not going down the path we went down. Look and us and think 'gross look at all that disease and health issues' let's go a different way."


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