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overeat

[oh-ver-eet] / ˌoʊ vərˈit /


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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

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 R. L. Alsaker

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

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

Added to all this, Goliath, the miniature Belgian griffon, having probably overeaten himself, had complicated pains inside, and the callous vet. could or would not come round till the evening.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke

This type of consumption, often referred to as mindless eating, is frequently conflated with overeating.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Although overeating might seem like a problem that begins in the stomach, appetite is largely regulated by the brain.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 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

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

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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