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.”
Sugary drink advocacy, Mexican style
The creatively active Mexican advocacy group, El Poder del Consumidor, launched a new video take-off on Coca-Cola ads—“Haz feliz a alguien” (“Make someone happy”)—with a demonstration on Mexico City’s Zocalo in front of the National Cathedral.
They sent along a translation of the video:
What would make you happy this Christmas?
That my dad were here with us.
PLAY SPORTS/EXERCISE (posted at the bottom of the screen to mimic Coke ads here)
That my mom could see her grandson.
PLAY SPORTS/EXERCISE
That my dad could play soccer with me.
PLAY SPORTS/EXERCISE
Make someone happy this Christmas.
50,000 people in Mexico are blind because of diabetes.
Someone’s limb is amputated every 7 minutes because of diabetes.
In Mexico, 66 people die each day from drinking sugary drinks.
Make someone happy.
Share this video and remove soda from your table.
