A team at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, has developed a validated 5-item questionnaire to help clinicians and researchers quantify the common phenomenon popularly known as “food noise”. (Image: Shutterstock AI)
Food noise—the relentless, intrusive, uncontrollable mental rumination about food—is a common experience reported by people struggling to manage their weight. The surge in use of GLP-1 inhibiting drugs has spotlighted this phenomenon because many patients report that GLP-1 treatments quell the intensity of food-related thoughts.
But until
recently, clinicians and researchers have been at a loss on how to objectively quantify
the prevalence and severity of food noise.
Enter
Hanim Diktas, PhD, an obesity researcher at the Pennington Biomedical Research
Center, Baton Rouge, LA, who headed a multi-disciplinary research team that
took on the task of developing the first scientifically validated food noise
assessment tool.
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