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
The results showed that people who tended to overeat because food looked or smelled appealing were more likely to see long term benefits from the drugs.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 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
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
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
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
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
However, participants following the fasting plan did not feel they had to constantly monitor their eating, avoid overeating, or count calories to achieve those results.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 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
“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
As a result of overeating, Templeton grew bigger and fatter than any rat you ever saw.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
