About The Dietitian's Dispatch

Staff

• Diane Kowalski

  Founding Editor

  Forty-year veteran of nutrition journalism who has watched the same dietary advice get repackaged and resold every decade with a new font. Covers nutrition policy and food labeling with the energy of someone who has attended too many FDA public comment sessions to feel hope, but too many to stop showing up. Her institutional memory is both her superpower and her burden.

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  Forty-year veteran of nutrition journalism who has watched the same dietary advice get repackaged and resold every decade with a new font. Covers nutrition policy and food labeling with the energy of someone who has attended too many FDA public comment sessions to feel hope, but too many to stop showing up. Her institutional memory is both her superpower and her burden.

• Dr. Priya Ranganathan

  Standards Correspondent

  Former clinical dietitian who spent twelve years in hospital nutrition departments before snapping during a staff meeting about alkaline water. Now writes withering takedowns of supplement marketing claims, cross-referencing every assertion against PubMed with the tenacity of a forensic accountant. Readers call her column 'peer review with fangs.'

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  Former clinical dietitian who spent twelve years in hospital nutrition departments before snapping during a staff meeting about alkaline water. Now writes withering takedowns of supplement marketing claims, cross-referencing every assertion against PubMed with the tenacity of a forensic accountant. Readers call her column 'peer review with fangs.'

• Emeka Okafor-Lind

  Civic Affairs Desk

  Sports physiologist who pivoted to writing after realizing he was spending more time arguing about protein timing on forums than doing actual research. Covers exercise nutrition with a bias toward 'what the evidence actually supports,' which is almost never what the guy at the gym told you. Treats broscience as an oral folklore tradition worthy of anthropological study.

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  Sports physiologist who pivoted to writing after realizing he was spending more time arguing about protein timing on forums than doing actual research. Covers exercise nutrition with a bias toward 'what the evidence actually supports,' which is almost never what the guy at the gym told you. Treats broscience as an oral folklore tradition worthy of anthropological study.

• Fatou Mensah-Byrne

  Culture Columnist

  Professional contrarian who holds a master's in public health and deploys it primarily to annoy other nutrition writers. Writes a column called 'Actually' in which she takes widely accepted dietary advice and stress-tests it until something breaks — which it usually does. Distinguishes herself from mere skeptics by always proposing what the evidence does support, even when it's unsatisfying.

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  Professional contrarian who holds a master's in public health and deploys it primarily to annoy other nutrition writers. Writes a column called 'Actually' in which she takes widely accepted dietary advice and stress-tests it until something breaks — which it usually does. Distinguishes herself from mere skeptics by always proposing what the evidence does support, even when it's unsatisfying.

• Jasper Quon

  Field Reporter

  A microbiome researcher who writes about gut health with the specific goal of rescuing it from people who sell kombucha as medicine. Produces deep-dive features that start with a single bacterial strain and end up questioning the foundations of nutritional epidemiology. Readers either love the 4,000-word rabbit holes or skip to his one-paragraph 'So What Does This Actually Mean' summary at the bottom.

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  A microbiome researcher who writes about gut health with the specific goal of rescuing it from people who sell kombucha as medicine. Produces deep-dive features that start with a single bacterial strain and end up questioning the foundations of nutritional epidemiology. Readers either love the 4,000-word rabbit holes or skip to his one-paragraph 'So What Does This Actually Mean' summary at the bottom.

• Marcus Trebilcock

  Letters Editor

  A food historian who wandered into nutrition writing after discovering that Victorian-era cereal magnates were just as unhinged as modern biohackers. Covers the long, weird arc of dietary advice by proving that every 'revolutionary' eating trend is just something a 19th-century sanitarium already tried. Has a concerning amount of knowledge about Kellogg.

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  A food historian who wandered into nutrition writing after discovering that Victorian-era cereal magnates were just as unhinged as modern biohackers. Covers the long, weird arc of dietary advice by proving that every 'revolutionary' eating trend is just something a 19th-century sanitarium already tried. Has a concerning amount of knowledge about Kellogg.

• Rhiannon Kemp

  Institutional Memory Desk

  Came to nutrition journalism after a five-year detour through wellness influencer culture that she now describes as 'an expensive education in confirmation bias.' Writes with the zeal of a convert and the precision of someone who memorized the logical fallacy Wikipedia page out of spite. Specializes in decoding the language wellness brands use to say nothing while sounding profound.

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  Came to nutrition journalism after a five-year detour through wellness influencer culture that she now describes as 'an expensive education in confirmation bias.' Writes with the zeal of a convert and the precision of someone who memorized the logical fallacy Wikipedia page out of spite. Specializes in decoding the language wellness brands use to say nothing while sounding profound.

• Soo-Yun Park

  Weekend Editor

  Data journalist who left a fintech analytics role to apply the same rigor to nutrition claims, because 'at least financial fraud has to file an 8-K.' Builds dashboards, scrapes ingredient labels, and turns nutrition science into charts that make fad diet gurus visibly uncomfortable. Her spreadsheet comparing influencer supplement stacks to RDA percentages went mildly viral.

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  Data journalist who left a fintech analytics role to apply the same rigor to nutrition claims, because 'at least financial fraud has to file an 8-K.' Builds dashboards, scrapes ingredient labels, and turns nutrition science into charts that make fad diet gurus visibly uncomfortable. Her spreadsheet comparing influencer supplement stacks to RDA percentages went mildly viral.

• Tomás Delgado-Weiss

  Public Records Fellow

  Former line cook turned registered dietitian who is personally offended by the phrase 'clean eating.' Covers the intersection of real-world cooking and nutrition science for people who buy groceries on a budget, not a philosophy. His column 'Calories Per Dollar' treats the supermarket aisle like an economics problem with a garlic press.

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  Former line cook turned registered dietitian who is personally offended by the phrase 'clean eating.' Covers the intersection of real-world cooking and nutrition science for people who buy groceries on a budget, not a philosophy. His column 'Calories Per Dollar' treats the supermarket aisle like an economics problem with a garlic press.

• Willow Macros

  Copy Chief

  Registered dietitian who has calculated the macronutrient content of her own patience and found it dangerously low.

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  Registered dietitian who has calculated the macronutrient content of her own patience and found it dangerously low.