Posts Tagged ‘psychological distress’

A Rigorous Validation of Food Noise Measurement

October 23, 2025 — There are those who would tell us that the phenomenon of food noise lives only in the heads of people who find it distressing. Philosopher Kate Manne wants to turn it into a Gaslight phenomenon, telling us to “dance to it.” Philosophize it away. But with a new and rigorous validation of the RAID-FN scale, […]

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 […]