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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overeat .
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Examples
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This research certainly opens up new vistas for weight control if a person overeats a particular food that might be unhealthy for them.
David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.: Can We Think Ourselves Slim? Ph.D. David R. Hamilton 2011
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If someone gains weight because of the same cause, for example, overeats instead of undereats in response to depression, the person is viewed with contempt instead of sympathy, and medical problems are ignored or seen as a result of self-indulgence.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Truth TOPS Bias at TOS Meeting 2009
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This research certainly opens up new vistas for weight control if a person overeats a particular food that might be unhealthy for them.
David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.: Can We Think Ourselves Slim? Ph.D. David R. Hamilton 2011
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On the surface you seem to be improving the self you know, the one that gets depressed, overeats, or gets entangled in a bitter divorce.
Deepak Chopra: When You Help Yourself, Which Self Are You Helping? 2010
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There is evidence that they are less likely to be employed, are bullied in schools and social situations, and spend their days focused on the number on the scale, obsessing about ways to lose weight and dreaming of how their lives will change for the better if they are thin -- all of which creates anxiety and feeds in to the reasons the person overeats or binges in the first place.
Open Letter to the First Lady and the 'Let's Move' Taskforce Chevese Turner 2010
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But on the levels that we need to be considering if we are to achieve long-term, sustainable, non-scarcity food production, it seems to me that the brainless cow model overeats quickly.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2008
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On the surface you seem to be improving the self you know, the one that gets depressed, overeats, or gets entangled in a bitter divorce.
Deepak Chopra: When You Help Yourself, Which Self Are You Helping? 2010
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There is evidence that they are less likely to be employed, are bullied in schools and social situations, and spend their days focused on the number on the scale, obsessing about ways to lose weight and dreaming of how their lives will change for the better if they are thin -- all of which creates anxiety and feeds in to the reasons the person overeats or binges in the first place.
Chevese Turner: Open Letter to the First Lady and the 'Let's Move' Taskforce 2010
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Everyone overeats now and then but this is different.
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The “Levin woman” hoards, overeats and stuffs her body, which is her property and the weapon she uses to control the man she wishes to acquire.
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