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Food Noise

I'm a weight-inclusive nutrition therapist, author and journalist who is super serious about helping people have a more peaceful, less complicated relationship with food and body. I also have a take-no-prisoners approach to nutrition and health B.S. in the media. Yep, it's gonna get loud, but I'll also bring you a lot of, "Whew...that's good to know."

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Friday Food Noise Links + Recommendations

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Friday Food Noise Links + Recommendations Including what I'm reading and watching December 5, 2025 Happy Friday! You might be glad to know that my Saga of the Marauding Cows is over, at least for now. The two cows did a number on our lawn again last Monday night, then Tuesday afternoon there were suddenly FOUR cows. I texted the guy responsible for them, and he was like, "Sorry, I can't get them until tomorrow."(!) So my husband took matters into his own hands...

“If I’m not perfect, I’m a failure”

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett "If I'm not perfect, I'm a failure" Why to let go of this all-or-nothing thinking December 2, 2025 One question I ask all my new clients is, “Do you believe you have to eat perfectly to be a healthy eater?” Often, but not always, the answer is “Yes.” That’s one “flavor” of “If I’m not perfect, I’m a failure.” I’ve also watched people struggle with a similar mindset about exercise, and about practicing new behaviors and building new habits, such as: Meditation...
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Does it matter what order you eat your food in?

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Does it matter what order you eat your food in? Probably not, but let's talk about it November 25, 2025 Over the years, several clients have asked me if they should eat their food in a certain order — or, have told me that they were already doing this because of something they read on social media or elsewhere online. When CNBC published an article on their website in October with claims from a “longevity expert” that the order of how you eat is vitally...
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When reporters don't understand 'food as medicine'

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett When reporters don't understand 'food as medicine' Allison Aubrey, is your bias showing? November 21, 2025 Happy Friday! Before I jump into today's post, I want to make one thing clear. I like NPR. I generally consider it a go-to news source. But for the past few years, NPR reporter Allison Aubrey has been doing some questionable health reporting. I suspect it's because she has her own biases in favor of diet-and-wellness culture (which I get, because we're all...

Self-care for when you’re overstimulated

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Self-care for when you're overstimulated How to turn down the volume on 'too much' November 18, 2025 The holidays are just around the corner, and for a lot of people they can feel like too much. Maybe not the entire holiday season, but certainly parts of it. This can be true for people who are neurodivergent, have the personality trait known as sensory processing sensitivity, who struggle with anxiety, or who are simply more introverted. Regardless of the bigger...
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Friday Food Noise Links + Recommendations

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Friday Food Noise Links + Recommendations Including what I'm reading and watching November 14, 2025 Happy Friday! If you read my cow-gone-wild saga last week, it got worse about an hour after that newsletter landed in your inbox. I was sitting at my desk working on billing insurance (a REAL highlight of my week...yes, I'm being sarcastic), when I heard mooing. Now, at face value that means nothing, because it's not uncommon for a cow to suddenly turn up the...
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Weight bias and necropolitics

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Weight bias and necropolitics Don't worry...I'll explain what that means November 11, 2025 If you saw the title of this article and though, “What is necropolitics?” I totally get it. It’s a term that I only became familiar with recently through a talk that Virgie Tovar, a plus-size Latina author, lecturer, and expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity, gave at a weight stigma conference. Necropolitics is a term originally defined by historian and...
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What walking does for your brain, and cows do to you garden

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett What walking does for your brain, and cows do to your garden Notes on some very good health reporting November 7, 2025 Today's newsletter will be brief, because I didn't see any nutrition/health reporting that made me want to rant. Yay! So before I get to what is worthy of praise this week, I'm going to share my personal News of the Weird. Namely, a cow tromped all over my garden last week. We'd spotted the cow in question (photo above) twice at the top of our...

“I won't be happy until I have my 19-year-old body back”

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett "I won't be happy until I have my 19-year-old body back" Why that's a really messed up way to think November 4, 2025 If you’ve looked back at photos of your younger self and wished you looked that way now, you’re far from alone. Unfortunately, it’s super common that we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s 5, 10, 20, 50 years down the road. Even though they usually don’t say it in so many words, I’ve had many, many, many clients tell me that they want their...
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How often should you eat? Insights from new research

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett How often should you eat? Insights from new research Yeah, about those 'mini meals' October 28, 2025 One of my most vivid memories from back when I was working for a doctor and doing “non-diet weight loss”*was a discussion that popped up in an Intuitive Eating group I was leading.** The discussion was about how almost every woman in the room had had it drilled into their head that it was important to eat several small meals a day to “stay ahead of hunger.”...

I'm a weight-inclusive nutrition therapist, author and journalist who is super serious about helping people have a more peaceful, less complicated relationship with food and body. I also have a take-no-prisoners approach to nutrition and health B.S. in the media. Yep, it's gonna get loud, but I'll also bring you a lot of, "Whew...that's good to know."