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
6
2025
The Super Bowl food phenomenon: a few items
The Super Bowl may be about football but it is also very much about food, as this image shows.
And here are a few items about all that food:
- Super Bowl snacking: Facts, figures and fan favourites: The Super Bowl isn’t just about touchdowns and halftime shows; it’s also one of the biggest food consumption events of the year. What are the latest trends, spending habits, and favourite snacks that define this massive snacking event?… Read more
- Moneytalks: All the $$$$ generated by Super Bowl 2024: With a record-breaking 123.7 million tuning in to watch Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers on Super Bowl Sunday, consumer spend was estimated to increase by nearly a billion dollars over last year.
- Super Bowl snack wars: Are brands paying too much for the hype: Every year, snack brands wage an all-out marketing blitz to capture their share of Game Day indulgence. With sky-high ad prices and fierce competition, companies are betting big that their chips, dips, and baked goods will be the real MVPs (most valuable players) of the night… Read more
