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overeat

[oh-ver-eet] / ˌoʊ vərˈit /


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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

“So we tend to overeat, and because of that, we can gain weight, we can have diabetes and high blood pressure,” he said.

From Salon Nov. 11, 2023

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

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

You know that if a man overeats, his thoughts will change their color; he will have what he calls "the blues."

From The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

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

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

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

"People taking these drugs for obesity often describe a quieting of 'food noise,' the persistent preoccupation with food that drives overeating," Al-Aly said.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 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

“I came to understand that overeating doesn’t cause obesity. Obesity causes overeating,” she told the outlet.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 30, 2025

She wants me to see what has become of her, since her days of sloth and overeating and-failure.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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