Food Noise

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Are hormone-syncing diets real or bogus? Looking beyond the trend to the actual science April 28, 2026 If you’ve scrolled through online wellness platforms recently, you have likely encountered a dietary trend promising to calm the physiological storms of a woman's body: “hormone syncing,” often popularized alongside the practice of “seed cycling.” Driven largely by women navigating the unpredictable shifts of perimenopause, as well as those meticulously...

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Self-care tips for stress How to nourish yourself when life is hard April 21, 2026 There’s a lot of uncertainty right now in the world, politically, economically and environmentally. While it’s always important to take care of yourself, self-care may be even more important in times of uncertainty. I’m always an advocate of physical and emotional self-care, because if you don’t take care of yourself, who will? Self-care is not selfish! But self-care isn’t all...

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett The peptide craze: magic elixir or expensive experiment Separating science from the wellness hype March 30, 2026 One of my favorite things is busting nutrition myths, and that extends to busting nutrition hype. Because it seems like all I hear about are peptides, peptides, peptides lately (and how they’re apparently good for just about everything that might ail us), I decided to look under the hood of the hype (aka dig into what actual research has to say. Let’s...

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Friday Food Noise Links + Recommendations Including what I'm reading and watching March 20, 2026 Happy Friday! We're having unseasonably nice weather in my neck of the woods (highs of 72 degrees instead of the average high of 45 degrees), and while I'm not taking this as a nudge to accelerate my planting schedule (because the tide could easily turn), it is nice to get a head start on spring garden cleanup. Other than fine weather, one of the highlights of the...

Food Noise from Carrie Dennett When your body doesn’t ‘look’ like your eating disorder The invisible struggle March 10, 2026 If you’ve spent your life believing that eating disorders have a specific “look,” you aren’t alone. There’s a reason that the SWAG (skinny, white, affluent girl) stereotype — an unfortunate artifact of early research on patients with anorexia nervosa — is still so dominant. But eating disorders don’t discriminate. Not only can people of all ages, genders and races...