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
Apr
15
2014
Washington, DC: George Washington University Urban Food Task Force
This is a public lecture at 2:30 p.m. in the Jack Morton Auditorium on “Food Politics: From Personal to Social Responsibility.”
This is followed by a session in José Andres’ course, “World on a Plate,” from 4:00 to 5:20 (I’m speaking on food politics and corporate responsibility with professor John Forrer), followed by a reception at the President’s House.
