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
27
2019
Weekend reading: Healthy drinks for kids
HealthyDrinksHealthyKids.org has issued recommendations on what kids should drink in collaboration with impressive co-signers:
- The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Heart Association
The recommendations for parents vary by age. For example, for infants up to age 6 months:
Only breast milk or infant formula (or water)
- No juice
- No milk
- No flavored milks
- No transition formulas
- No plant-based milks
- No caffeinated beverages
- No diet drinks
- No sugar-sweetened beverages
This is an important report. About half of toddlers are given sugary beverages. Let’s hope this is an incentive to stop this practice.
Here are the documents:
- The full list of recommendations
- The website
- Drink Guidelines Consensus Statement
- Drink Guidelines 4 Pager
- Drink Guidelines Press Release
