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
Nov
30
2015
New York: In Defense of Food—Film and Conversation
This is a screening of Michael Pollan’s new documentary, “In Defense of Food” at NYU’s Skirball Center for Performing Arts, at 6:30. It’s followed by a panel discussion with me, Pollan, director michael Schwarz, and writer Ed Gray. Krishnendu Ray will moderate.
Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for NYU students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and may be purchased online at nyuskirball.org or in person at the NYU Skirball Center Box Office: Tuesday-Saturday, 12–6 p.m. The NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South.
