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
Jun
8
2026
The wonders of AI: a cubist portrait
Last week on my way home from the Washington, DC, launch of the ultra-processed papers from the American Journal of Public Health, I was corresponding with Richard McCarthy (Think Like Pirates) about our mutual sadness about the death of Slow Food founder, Carlo Petrini.
Richard said our conversation inspired him to ask the free ChatGBT to produce this portrait.
I absolutely love it and wish I looked like that.
I’m trying to figure out how to use it. Suggestions welcome.
Thanks Richard (and AI)!
