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
Feb
27
2016
Three books about eating: 2. The Practice of Eating
This is the second of three books about eating. The first is here.
Alan Warde. The Practice of Eating. Polity, 2016.
This is a sociologist’s attempt to establish a theory of food consumption. Advances in theory, he says, have been limited for three reasons:
First, eating has been looked at as a series of practical problems, as a terrain of crises. Second, the topic has been dealt with in multidisciplinary contexts where theoretical synthesis has had low priority. Third, consumption remains subordinated to concern about production.
This book makes up for those deficiencies and will be greatly appreciated by graduate students of sociology, food studies, and other academic disciplines.
