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-funded research of the week: Pistachio Request for Proposals (too late, alas)
Jim Krieger of Healthy Food America forwarded this email announcement sent to members of the American Society for Nutrition (I am a member, but somehow missed this). It’s an example of how industry-funded research gets started.
This is a sponsored message from the American Pistachio Growers, an ASN [American Society for Nutrition] Sustaining Partner.
But you can see how this works. The Pistachio trade association is looking for research to show how eating pistachios enhances sleep, improves performance, and supports weight management (like taking GLP-1 drugs).
If research proposals do not support these objectives, they won’t be funded.
I realize I’m posting this too late for you to apply and test this statement. Sorry about that. Next time!
