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
Mar
29
2021
Annals of marketing: honey to dietitians
A dietitian colleague forwarded this message from Today’s Dietitian.
Honey may be made by bees, but it is mainly glucose and fructose just like any other sugars.
A few “food-for-thought” questions:
- Should dietetic publications be promoting sugars of any kind?
- Should dietitians be recommending honey to their clients?
- Should dietitians allow their publications to accept ads like this?
