You've probably heard the term food noise showing up in conversations about GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy. But food noise isn't new — millions of people have been living with it for years without a name for it.

Food noise is the constant mental chatter around food that exists whether you're hungry or not. It's thinking about lunch while you're still eating breakfast. It's the negotiating, the planning, the cravings, and the guilt that can follow you through an entire day. For many people, it has simply become the background of daily life — so familiar it feels normal.

In this episode, Evet explores what food noise actually is, why so many people experience it, and what its existence reveals about the food environment we live in. She draws on the psychology of hedonic hunger and reward, the history of how food companies lea ...