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
23
2026
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 150th Anniversary
Feeding the Future: Food, Climate, and Global Stability, 6:00 p.m. at Shriver Hall. Register here.
Join former White House Chef Sam Kass, who helped shape national conversations about nutrition and food policy; Samuel Myers of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, a leading voice on how climate change threatens global nutrition and human health; renowned nutrition scholar and food policy advocate Marion Nestle and Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Food Policy and Climate at Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS Europe, whose research focuses on the livelihoods of people living in resource-constrained places, for a dynamic conversation at the intersection of science, policy, and the plate.
