What is the Food Noise Phenomenon?
The idea of ‘food noise’ isn’t new, but it entered the mainstream in 2023, when GLP-1 weight loss injections (like Wegovy and Mounjaro) became available in the UK, promising to help quiet people’s internal chatter around food.
What is food noise? “Essentially, it refers to persistent, intrusive or repetitive thoughts about food,” says psychologist and disordered eating specialist Dr Charlotte Ord, external.
That could be obsessing over what to eat next, feeling preoccupied by food or dieting, avoiding certain foods or developing rigid eating habits or rules. “For me, it is intrinsically linked to exposure to diet culture messaging and the practice of dieting itself,” says Ord.
Excerpted from the BBC
