overeat
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And they could be offered an extra snack in the afternoon so they're not tempted to overeat when they get home.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
In other words, because of the effects of diet culture, people who lack access to food feel so much guilt when they overeat that they respond by further starving their bodies.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
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Now, he said, restaurants with vegetarian menus are so good that he often overeats.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
It’s a day where everyone overeats — that’s not my thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
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 Wilkie Collins
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
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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
Mishap the second: Master Brooks Brooks Cunninghame had overeaten himself and come near to leaving the whole family in mourning as loud as his own wails.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
A new study from Japan suggests that a person's eating habits and the reasons behind overeating may play a major role in how successful these drugs are over time.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 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
Together, many experts argue, these factors create constant cues and pressures toward overeating and inactivity, meaning even highly motivated individuals struggle to maintain a healthy weight.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
If a person did the overeating, the opening ing phrase should be attached to him.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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