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
31
2014
Happy Labor Day Weekend: Eat!
It’s the end of summer and time to contemplate, if not visit, State Fairs selling increasingly imaginative deep-fried treats. Apparently, deep-fried Oreos and deep-fried butter are so last year.
The Wall Street Journal tells us that the Great New York State Fair—in Syracuse, right now—has a better one: “Twinks.”
And what, pray tell, is a Twink?
The recipe:
- Take one Twinkie.
- Stuff with a Twix candy bar
- Wrap in bacon.
- Dip in batter.
- Deep-fry.
- Sprinkle with sugar.
The damage? Just south of 1,000 calories.
And from Montana, Daniel Schultz sends this photo of the latest grocery store deal. If you buy a soda cake (soda cake?) for $4.99, you get 2 liters of your favorite soft drink to wash it down, free.
Drive carefully.
