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
Jan
10
2023
Chile’s new dietary guidelines
Twitter still has its uses. It’s how I found out about about Chile’s new dietary guidelines.
Even without speaking Spanish, you can see what they do that the US Dietary Guidelines do not. They emphasize:
- Sustainability (the forbidden word in the 2020-2025 US Guideines)
- Fresh, minimally processed foods–“Avoid products ultra-processed and labeled as “high in” (“ultra-processed is not mentioned in the US Guidelines)
- Home cooking
- Respect for traditional cultural values
- Farmers’ markets
- Recycling
One odd message: “Consume làcteos en todas las etapas de la vida,” which I translate as “Consume dairy foods through all stages of life.”
I’m wondering how that got in there and guessing that Chile must have a powerful dairy industry.
But I hope the new, soon to be appointed, I’m told, 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will pay attention to Chile’s version. It has much to teach us.
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