Currently reading What to Eat Now, by Marion Nestle

Rajiv Vakani

Certainty arrives faster than understanding.

Food, health, evidence, and the space between the first answer and the better one.

Questions I keep returning to

the next study the question before the answer after the headline context changes everything what your grandmother knew after the trend correlation is not enough certainty travels fast food is more than nutrients the harder problem is behavior evidence has limits too better questions first
Why nutrition advice keeps changing

Tradition Marion Nestle Ultraprocessed food Is more always better? Seed oils What gets repeated? What counts as evidence?
What “natural” actually means

Food culture Cultural memory Michael Pollan Why not a South Asian diet? Is tradition evidence? Food or nutrients?
Where experts disagree

Walter Willett Gut health Fasting Sarcopenia Protein obsession? What counts as healthy?

Where this came from.

I started reading because I wanted to solve a problem. At first it was my own health. The problem was eventually solved, but the reading didn’t stop. Somewhere along the way I realized I was no longer reading about myself. I was reading about ingredients, evidence, behavior, gardening, food systems, and why people eat differently around the world. The original question had become a much bigger one. That’s what I write about now.

The longer story is on Journey.

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