What is food noise, and why can you not stop thinking about eating |
Some days, food feels like the main character in your head. You can be typing a long email, scrolling through reels, or pretending to pay attention in a meeting, and suddenly your brain jumps to biryani, toast with butter, or that leftover cake you swore you would forget. This is where people start using the term food noise. It is the background voice that keeps nudging you toward thoughts of eating, even when your stomach is not asking for anything.A peer-reviewed paper in Nature Nutrition describes food noise as intrusive thoughts about food that show up again and again, separate…