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
Sep
10
2019
Death by backyard chicken?
The CDC reports that more than 1000 people have been infected with a toxic form of Salmonella, almost certainly from contact with backyard poultry.
Among these cases of illness, 23% are among children under the age of 5 years.
The link to backyard poultry comes from epidemiologic and laboratory evidence.
The CDC warns owners of backyard poultry to take steps to avoid acquiring Salmonella from their poultry
This problem has become so serious that the CDC has a webpage devoted to the safety of backyard poultry.
Best to follow its advice.
