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
1
2016
Weekend reading: CSPI’s Carbonating the World
Center for Science in the Public Interest has produced a new report:
It’s a lavishly illustrated and well documented investigative report into soda company marketing in developing countries.
Here’s an example of the documentation, enough to explain why Coke and Pepsi are pouring billions of dollars into bottling plants and marketing in India:
For anyone interested in the nutrition transition from undernutrition to overnutrition in developing countries, this report is a must read. Actually, it’s a must read for anyone who cares about diet and health. If you do nothing else, look at the marketing illustrations from Nepal, Indonesia, or Nigeria. They tell the story on their own.
