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
9
2025
A Thursday giggle: Politics makes strange bedfellows
How did a nice girl like me end up in New York Magazine’s MAHA issue? I was amazed to find myself in this.
MAHA is the Trump Administration’s Make America Healthy Again campaign.
For the record: I’m totally for making America healthy, and especially for doing everything possible to reduce risks from chronic disease. I’m for some of what RFK, Jr wants to do (reduce intake of ultra-processed foods, get toxins out of the food supply, reduce conflicts of interest) but by no means all.
Oh well, I didn’t want you to miss this. Enjoy (?).
