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.”
by Marion Nestle
Aug
4
2017
CSPI’s encouraging report on sodas in restaurants
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a new report out, Sodas on the Menu.
It’s got some good news (we need some). Restaurants are making progress on cutting back sodas offered with kids’ meals. 
More progress is needed, of course, but on that cheerful thought, have a great August weekend.

