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
May
28
2020
Tone deaf food company ads of the week: Are these for real? So it seems.
Here are two ads sent to me last week. Both have now been taken down.
This one, according to reader Tony Vassallo (thanks!) comes from the Walmart Supercenter Store 908 at 8101 South John Young Parkway, Orlando FL. I’m not the only one who thought this was in bad taste (sorry). After a Twitter storm, Pepsi took it down.
But what about this one?
I looked up Westbrook Mall: Calgary, Alberta. This too caused an uproar. The franchise owner apologized, explaining that he was struggling and hoped to generate business, and the sign is now gone, apparently.
