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.”
Industry sponsorship of nutrition societies
I am a member of the American Society for Nutrition and received this notice about a sponsored session at it forthcoming annual meeting.
Potatoes generally score high on the Glycemic Index, indicating that their starches are quickly digested to sugars. The Alliance for Potato Research & Education has a speaker at this session. I’m guessing that the speakers won’t have anything good to say about the Glycemic Index. I don’t either, actually, but opinions would be more credible if they came from independent sources.
This made me look up the other sponsored sessions.
Here’s another reason why I don’t think the ASN should allow these sessions at annual meetings.
In my experience, you don’t get much scientific debate at industry-sponsored scientific sessions. Alas.
