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
Jul
4
2018
It’s July 4. What better time to participate in politics. Here’s how.
The New York Times has issued a splendid guide to how to use the political process (behind a paywall, alas) to get what our country needs.
The guide covers how to vote, lobby, get information, show up, talk to people about political issues, and even run for office.
If we want to change the world for the better, this is how it has to be done.
Read this (your local library must have access). Organize, Act.
The Fourth of July is a great time to start.
