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
12
2017
Weekend reading: Power of a Plant
Stephen Ritz with Suzie Boss. The Power of a Plant: A Teacher’s Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools. Rodale, 2017.
I did a blurb for this most entertaining book:
Here’s proof positive that one person can make a difference. Stephen Ritz uses food plants—the Bronx Green Machine–to transform kids and their school environments. You can do this too!
