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
Jul
21
2017
Healthy Food America’s resources for advocates
Healthy Food America is relatively new on the food advocacy scene but I am always impressed by the useful resources it produces.
It is my go-to place for information about soda taxes and other ways to reduce sugars and sugary drinks.
It offers, for example:
- Soda tax maps
- Report with Ninjas for Health on Coca-Cola’s involvement with researchers and reporters
- Toolkit for advocates working to reduce sugars
- Research Watch summaries
- Daily news feed
Useful? Yes!

