Posts Tagged ‘health psychology’

Lifting Food Noise Out of Pop Diet Chatter

July 9, 2025 — A new review in Nutrition & Diabetes marks an effort to get serious about lifting an important concept – food noise – out of the realm of inane pop diet chatter. Emily Dhurandhar and colleagues take care in defining food noise: “The formal definition of food noise is persistent thoughts about food that are perceived […]

Meeting of Thirty-Five Heads of Expression

Meeting People on Own Their Terms in Obesity Care

August 30, 2020 — I am a psychologist working in a bariatric medicine and surgery program. To give some context, the average BMI for a patient referred to our program is approximately 45. We receive referrals from a wide variety of medical specialties in our practice. So I am constantly learning from meeting people with obesity who come with […]