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
7
2017
Weekend reading: A People’s Food Policy
From the UK comes one of the best documents I’ve ever seen about food system policy:
It has information about why we need a coherent, comprehensive food policy, what it has to address, how to set priorities for putting policies in action, and how to build a movement to get there.
Olivier de Schutter, formerly the United Nations special rapporteur on the Right to Food, wrote the Foreword.
We need one of these for the United States. In the meantime, this is really useful.
Food organizations, professors, students: take a look.
Here’s the main site where you can find out more about this initiative.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByOC-u0iVRMGLUVKem12RHNhMU0/view
