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overeat

[oh-ver-eet] / ˌoʊ vərˈit /


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Some studies suggest, external the more processed food is, the easier it is to overeat it.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2011

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

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

Here the cows run about pasturing all the year round, and never know what it is to want; and yet I never had to kill one of them for having overeaten itself.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

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

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

"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

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

So if the call of junk food leads to overeating and too much obesity, what does too much interaction with our device lead to?

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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