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
Oct
9
2017
Belgium’s new food pyramid
Belgium has produced a new food guide “pyramid,” upside down. Its advice:
- Drink water
- Eat more fruits, vegetables, and grains
- Eat less dairy and meat, particularly those high in fat
- Eat a lot less junk food, sugary drinks, and alcohol
Nothing new here, really, except for making the advice so graphically clear.
As Quartz puts it, “the new food pyramid in Belgium sticks meat next to candy and pizza.”
USDA: take note.
