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overeat

[oh-ver-eet] / ˌoʊ vərˈit /


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The results showed that people who tended to overeat because food looked or smelled appealing were more likely to see long term benefits from the drugs.

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

As millions of people turned to the medications to lose weight, physicians and researchers started to hear that the lack of desire to overeat extended to drinking.

From MarketWatch Dec. 23, 2025

Ultra-processed foods are high in sodium, added sugar, saturated fats and chemicals that are designed to make the food easy and pleasurable to eat and overeat, Chiu said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 2, 2025

This is what UK scientists have discovered - identifying a genetic source of many labradors' - and some people's - tendency to overeat.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2025

He forgot Lavinia Lyte as he thought of the wonderful things it was her privilege to overeat if she wished.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

It’s a day where everyone overeats — that’s not my thing.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2019

Betsy overeats, has panic attacks, resents her father and misses her mother, dead from cancer like Edwards’s wife, Elizabeth.

From New York Times Dec. 18, 2017

Researchers believe that hundreds of genes, combined with environmental factors, have the potential to influence whether a person in the general population overeats and how easily he or she gains weight.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2015

Nikki overeats whenever she is upset, at one point devouring an entire fruit pie with her hands.

From New York Times Nov. 29, 2011

Whenever he overeats himself he sends for me; and pays liberally.

From Blind Love by Collins, Wilkie

Dr. Apovian said she would like to see a study that compared a group of subjects who overate all day to a time-restricted eating group of subjects who also overate.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

Members of the grounds crew believe the birds - who flew away after about 10 minutes - overate some fresh, high-quality grass seed.

From Washington Times Jul. 19, 2019

Members of the grounds crew believe the birds — who flew away after about 10 minutes — overate some fresh, high-quality grass seed.

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 2019

Women did say, however, that they felt “rushed” and like they overate when they were in the company of a man, even though the researchers found no evidence that they actually had.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2015

At Dessie’s they were women who went to the toilet and overate and scratched and farted.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Because satiety signals take time to travel from the stomach to the brain, by the time people realize they’re full, these high-density foods all but ensure they’ve already substantially overeaten.

From Slate Jul. 18, 2023

There are so many variations of the cheap, convenient food that’s engineered to be overeaten that if you tax some, others will take up the slack.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2022

Consumers may blame themselves for overindulging in these foods, but what if it is in the nature of these products to be overeaten?

From The Guardian Feb. 12, 2020

Peterson said the park’s balsam fir trees, the preferred food for moose during winter, are being overeaten.

From Washington Times Apr. 18, 2017

She was dreadfully sleepy, but she sprang up like a lark—a lark that had overeaten itself and gone to bed cross—and darted into the library.

From Christmas Every Day and Other Stories by Howells, William Dean

She says she struggles with overeating and cravings during her period.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

When you eat more vegetables “you increase your fiber, you feel full longer, and that helps mitigate the overeating from when you rely on ultraprocessed foods,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

That original study showed that diets made up entirely of ultra-processed foods lead to overeating and weight gain.

From Science Daily Feb. 5, 2026

A mutation in this gene, which encourages overeating and means we feel less full, is carried by roughly a fifth of the global population.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2026

Chacko often said that his ambition was to die of overeating.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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