Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
The farm bill course at NYU
I’m teaching a graduate course on the farm bill at New York University this semester. The class has about 45 students from diverse fields—food studies, nutrition, public health, public policy, environmental studies, law—all closely related to the subjects under discussion.
Discussions, to say the least, have been lively.
Photo by Hemi Weingarten, 9-19-11
I’ve had many requests for the course syllabus, which describes the goals and content, readings, assignments, and resources. It is posted along with the syllabi from other courses I’ve taught recently on my NYU faculty website. These are freely available for downloading.
Most of the readings are available online and you can find them easily if you search for them by title.
Download, share, use, and enjoy!
