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 to go next
- 01 Journey How this began. The questions came before the credentials. I started nutrition school in 2023. This is the longer road that brought me here, told the way it actually happened. Read the journey
- 02 Insights The work itself. Essays, research notes, and observations about food, evidence, and the gap between what science says and what people repeat. New pieces appear when something feels worth writing down. Read the work
- 03 About The shorter version. Education, current focus, and how to reach me. Brief and direct, in case that’s what you came for. Continue
There's a lot still to figure out. If something here is worth thinking about, or worth pushing back on, I'd like to hear from you.
Rajiv Vakani · Kept since 2023