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
28
2017
Weekend Reading: Urban Food Policy
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES) has issued a new report with five case studies on successful urban food policy. lead authors are Corinna Hawkes and Jess Halliday.
the five:
- Belo Horizonte—food security
- Nairobi—urban agriculture
- Amsterdam—healthy weight
- Golden Horseshoe (Ontario, Canada)—food and farming
- Detroit—urban agriculture
It’s wonderfully written and illustrated.
And it is highly instructive about what has to be in place to put these policies in action (the report calls them enablers).
You want a food policy in your town? This will help.
