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
Jan
14
2009
Oh no! Not another food quality rating scheme!
This time it’s Sara Lee, which has just introduced yet another scheme for showing off how nutritious its products are. Thanks to FoodEducate for alerting me to this one and also for this site’s excellent history of such schemes from 1862 to now. All of these schemes can be manipulated so the packaged foods look like they contain more nutrients than real foods. FDA: take this on, please.
Update January 15: And now Jewel-Osco stores join the party. I’d say this has gotten completely out of hand.
Update January 17: Add Nutrition IQ from the Supervalu supermarket chain to the list.
