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
May
4
2015
The Milan Food Expo: food politics in action
The slogan of the Milan Food Expo, May 1-October 31, is “Feeding The Planet, Energy for Life.”
The U.S. has a gorgeous pavilion framed by an undulating wall of vertical vegetables.
A video featuring President Obama greets guests. Check out what he says:
Even more, he adds:
Good, safe, healthy food for all!
Creating sustainable food systems!
Yes!
More to come…
