overeat
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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
Advocating for the lower 2,000 calorie baseline, they reasoned, would offset Americans' tendency to overeat and do more good than harm for the population overall.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 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
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
As nearly everybody overeats, and because overeating is the greatest single factor in producing disease and premature death, it is advisable not to eat cheese and other foods rich in protein in the same meal.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.
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
Theoretically, those using the monitors might have been so inspired to exercise that they moved a lot, developed large appetites, and overate, blunting any weight loss from the workouts, he says.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
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
First was a food environment stocked with cheap, convenient foods, deliberately designed to be overeaten, in our face 24/7.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
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
Sir Clarence has overdrunk himself, or overeaten himself, I fancy.
From Archibald Malmaison by Hawthorne, Julian
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
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
“This type of obsessive food-related thinking can override hunger cues and lead to patterns of overeating, undereating or emotional eating — especially for people who are overweight,” Tufts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
“I just tell patients to be careful if you do this and remember the hunger and food noise will come back,” she says, which could lead to overeating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
His stomach had shrunk and the food made him feel heavy, wrong somehow, and he’d stopped overeating.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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