BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhuanet) -- British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will feature on ABC's six episodes in a new series to teach U.S. residents how to make healthy food choices.

    Produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions, the series will have the healthy-cooking guru traveling to the unhealthiest places in America and find ways to use nearby resources to improve local eating habits.

    The series is inspired on Oliver's acclaimed school lunch project in the U.K., where the chef set about to improve kids' nutrition. His effort to improve one school's offerings, documented in the 2005 series "Jamie's School Dinners," shamed educators into passing new measures to ban certain junk foods.

    The shooting is scheduled to begin in August and the show will be ready for air as early as January, according to Seacrest.

    "We've developed an original concept here to take on communities starting with one and hopefully spreading across the country," Seacrest says.

    School lunch programs will be one target for reform. But Oliver and his producers will also assess the availability of fresh produce at local grocery stores, the proliferation of fast-food establishments and choices available at offices.

    (Agencies)