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
Mar
23
2010
Calorie labeling to go national!
The impossibly impenetrable health care bill that just passed the House has one little piece of good news buried in it: national calorie labeling.
The provision covers chains with 20 outlets throughout the country and is supposed to go into effect in a year or so. It also covers vending machines! These are great steps. Calorie labeling has two effects. It educates anyone who is interested to look and think about it. And it encourages chain restaurants to offer lower calorie options. See note below giving the index to this section.
Cheers to Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has lobbied for years to get this into law.
Note: Thanks to Ellen Fried for sending me this link to an Index to the menu labeling provision.
