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
11
2019
Weekend reading: World Resources Report
The World Resources Institute has issued its final report on Creating a Sustainable Food Future.
The report addresses the central dilemma of our time: how to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050 without destroying the planet in the process.
The report takes a deep dive into potential solutions:
- Reduce demand
- Increase production
- Protect national ecosystems
- Increase fish supply
- Reduce greenhouse gases produced by agriculture
- Policy options
This report deals with these issues, none of them simple, in more than 550 pages. It offers no simple solutions. Dealing with this dilemma will take a great many actions by a great many people, governments, and industry. The report sets the agenda. Now it’s our turn.
