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
Apr
6
2010
Recent news about BPA
You almost have to be sorry for soft drink companies these day. The latest blow?. BPA has been found in soft drink cans in Canada (and, presumably, here?).
And the Danes have banned BPA from food packages targeted to children, no doubt, as the Swiss have shown, bottle-fed infants get the greatest exposure.
In the meantime, everyone keeps saying that current exposures are below safety limits. Maybe, but the FDA has just released five background documents that it is using as a basis for its current view (“some concern”) and future decision.
