What's the difference between gluttony and overconsumption?
Gluttony
Definition:
(n.) Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
Example Sentences:
(1) (That diagnoses the figure of "loathsome Gluttony" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene , "Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so".)
(2) There are voices calling out in anger “Pay back the money!” and “Blood on his hands!” But most of us sit silently behind the shield of our Constitution, hoping it will protect us from the violence of corruption and gluttony.
(3) But to suppose that eating can nourish the spirit looks like a category mistake: just the sort of category mistake that led the early church to define "gluttony" as a sin.
(4) I am also an avid cook and music collector, and naturally get talking to clients with the same interests; we're all hopeless romantics and inclined towards gluttony.
(5) Gluttony was, as Francine Prose (author of a pert monograph, Gluttony ) puts it, all about the "inordinate desire" for food, which makes us "depart from the path of reason".
(6) Kara Florish, 30, from Southend-on-Sea, shared on social media a picture of a card given to her by a stranger as she travelled on the tube that said: “It’s really not glandular, it’s your gluttony.” Overweight Haters Ltd is not registered at Companies House, but pictures of the card and of Florish have been posted on image-hosting website Slimgur , which describes itself as “the internet’s premier shitlord image host”.
(7) But the problem with the decision to embrace issues with an appetite bordering on gluttony is that it has put soaps in that dubious position of "reflecting Real Life" – or trying to.
(8) The effect of a gluttony diet in healthy subjects was studied over an observation period of 12 months.
(9) And despite a garden bursting with brussels sprouts, kale and winter salads, and a weekly delivery of organic apples, oranges, clementines and bananas, I know I didn't eat nearly enough fruit and veg to offset the gluttony.
(10) Gluttony, on the original understanding, wasn't necessarily a matter of eating too much; it was the problem of being excessively interested in food, whatever one's actual intake of it.
(11) There is increasing evidence that obesity, often an inherited disorder, cannot always be attributed to gluttony and sloth.
(12) And the theologian Thomas Aquinas agreed with Pope Gregory that gluttony can be committed in five different ways, among which are seeking more "sumptuous foods" or wanting foods that are "prepared more meticulously".
(13) She sources magazines that explore the darkest depths of human desire, including a series of bestiality magazines she found in Quartier Pigalle in Paris with titles such as Transexual Horse Lovers and Snake Lover (“I have a library of every perversion on the planet”) cutting them up and montaging them with delicate images of flowers and butterflies, as well as the usual items of domesticity, glamour and gluttony.
(14) My consultant had started to look at other, more complex, endocrine problems but left the hospital to work in another, leaving me in the care of a much less sympathetic doctor who made no attempt to conceal either his contempt for me or his disgust at the gluttony, stupidity and indolence that he assumed I was indulging in.
(15) Among its depictions of gluttony is a large woman masturbating with a ghoulish smile.
Overconsumption
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(2) In cirrhotic patients with HBV markers (HBV +) incidence of alcoholic hepatitis was 4 times lower and the total duration of alcohol overconsumption was significantly lower than in cirrhotic patients without these markers (HBV-).
(3) Commenting on the results in the journal, Dr Laura Schmidt from the University of California at San Francisco, wrote: "We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in research on the health effects of sugar, one fuelled by extremely high rates of added sugar overconsumption in the American public.
(4) Morales also denounced systemic dependency on economic growth and overconsumption as being inherently harmful to the earth, and he advocated for the economic practices of indigenous peoples.
(5) The cause of this overconsumption is not understood, although other studies have indicated a possible relationship with the mechanisms involved in sodium control.
(6) The DNA excision-repair capacity of lymphocytes measured as UDS was decreased in alcoholics (p less than 0.01) and LPO in plasma was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) as a consequence of alcohol overconsumption.
(7) Any debate on the environment that focuses solely on overconsumption by rich countries is still missing out the role played by rapid population growth in creating inequality and environmental degradation.
(8) This situation gives rise to several reflections: early specialization may lead to poor surgical training and some surgeons may be unable to change to a new specialty; overspecialization is an invitation to medical overconsumption; the "overall" patient management in regions with a poor medical infrastructure may be difficult; finally, the legal consequences are still unknown.
(9) A total IV dose of 1.6 mg naloxone was administered in an attempt to reverse the suspected overconsumption of a codeine-containing cough suppressant.
(10) We did not, therefore, find evidence that under these experimental conditions sympathetic activation of BAT countered obesity during overconsumption or contributed to recovery from obesity.
(11) Two experiments were conducted to determine the hyperplastic response of adipose tissue from sexually mature chickens in response to caloric overconsumption.
(12) Public-health warnings linking overconsumption of sugar to tooth decay, type 2 diabetes, obesity and other health problems have never been more insistent.
(13) He said an "increased supply of cheap, palatable, energy-dense foods", coupled with better distribution and marketing, had led to "passive overconsumption".
(14) No debate on the environment should ignore either of the twin factors of population growth and overconsumption, however inconvenient this may seem to those who wish to prevent other people from using contraception.
(15) These results are compared to previous results which showed overconsumption of food in gallstone patients.
(16) Despite the unexpected findings that ordinary diabetics breakfast meals, high in oligosaccharides, gave a smaller increase in blood glucose than did meals in which wheat starch predominated, the use of diets rich in oligosaccharides should be avoided because of the risk of overconsumption owing to hypoglycemic symptoms or to the deficient feeling of satiety.
(17) Some mechanisms are discussed as being possibly the origin of this kind of anemia, particularly a lack of vitamin B6 resulting from a massive urinary loss of pyridoxal induced by isoniazid as well as both a tissue depletion and an overconsumption of this vitamin.
(18) Acute and chronic overconsumption of feeds are reflections of the normal controls (or lack thereof) of feeding in the horse.
(19) Here, however, the most important diet related health problems result from overconsumption of energy or nutrients such as fat, cholesterol, salt and alcohol.
(20) Magic bullets are typically designed to work with existing infrastructure, allowing the status quo to be maintained Underlying, systemic problems to do with poverty, failed markets or overconsumption are glossed over when these solutions are publicised and resolve into arguments over whether you are for or against a particular technology.