If thoughts about food are consuming your life, you may be dealing with food noise. If you can't stop thinking about food because of conversations you're having at home, at work or even online, you ...

Constant thoughts about food-what experts call "food noise"-aren't a sign of weak willpower, according to leading health professionals. Food cravings can often feel impossible to resist. One moment ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs) not only support weight loss but also appear to change the way people think about and experience food, according to two studies presented at the European Association for ...

Many people think about food constantly, even when they're not hungry. That has a name: Food noise. In a recent paper by Dhurandhar and colleagues (2025) of Indiana University, food noise is defined ...

People taking semaglutide report far fewer obsessive thoughts about food, with cravings dropping sharply and mental health improving. This new research hints the drug may offer freedom from the ...

This post was co-authored by Michelle May, MD. In 2024, one in eight people reported taking a GLP-1 receptor agonist (or GLP-1 for short). GLP-1s signal the hypothalamus to reduce hunger signals and ...

The rise of GLP-1s for weight loss has been swift and sudden. Not long ago, the drugs were mainly used by diabetes sufferers. Today, they’re synonymous for many with weight loss, leading consumers to ...

This special collection for Nutrition & Diabetes will focus on the emerging topic of food noise—a term increasingly used to describe persistent, intrusive thoughts about food that can interfere with ...

Deciding what to eat, where to get it, and how those choices align with health goals or cultural habits are ordinary parts of daily life. But when thoughts about food become constant, intrusive, or ...

If you can't stop thinking about food because of conversations you're having at home, at work or even online, you may be dealing with something called food noise. This can be exacerbated by ...