How to invent a disease - by Natalie Cargill

The noise is the signal, dipshits

Log onto Instagram — as a woman, with a body — and you will likely discover you have a disease. Nothing so implicating or falsifiable as being overweight or obese or mentally ill. That would be rude. You will discover that — like fifty-seven percent of overweight Americans 1— you are afflicted with “food noise”. Food noise, for the not (yet) diagnosed, is unwanted mental chatter about food. It’s the thing that makes you think about lunch while eating breakfast; or obsess over whether your flatmate has eaten the piece of garlic bread you left in the fridge; or tremble and weep uncontrollably…

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