What's the difference between overeat and overest?
Overeat
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To gnaw all over, or on all sides.
(v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young male Sprague-Dawley rats were induced to overeat (approximately 45%) by provision of a "cafeteria" (CAF) diet of palatable human foods.
(2) This study examined attrition and weight loss in 235 female obese binge eaters, episodic overeaters, and nonbingers treated by a 26-week program of behavior modification and very low calorie diet.
(3) Only rats with electrolytic lesions displayed elevated plasma insulin levels during an initial period of food restriction, but both groups with lesions were hyperinsulinemic when allowed to overeat.
(4) If the addict says it is a choice to overeat, who are you, or I, to disagree?
(5) Whether obese humans will overeat in response to a reduction in body energy stores is not known.
(6) Under these conditions, these animals overeat, but the major part of the excess energy intake above maintenance, is dissipated as heat through the sympathetic activation of brown adipose tissue.
(7) Obese and nonobese American Indians overeat in response to stress.
(8) Obesity was induced by programming pups to overeat immediately after birth and then feeding them a high-fat diet thereafter.
(9) Diets that cause animals to overeat and become obese have been used in many investigations of obesity.
(10) There is little evidence that people who are driven to overeat become dependent on a single ingredient; instead they tend to seek out a range of highly palatable, energy-dense foods, of the kind with which we are now surrounded.
(11) Another paper found that the more weight-conscious people are, the more likely they are to overeat : the stress it induces is a trigger for comfort eating.
(12) Only bulimic anorexia nervosa respondents perceived any interventions to be more harmful than helpful, specifically Overeaters Anonymous and self-help groups, both nonprofessional interventions.
(13) Alloxan-diabetic rats fed a standard, low-fat diet lost body weight and were hyperphagic; those fed a high-fat diet lost comparable amounts of weight, but did not overeat compared to normal animals.
(14) With a baby-led approach, parents report that their children are more likely to stop eating when they feel full and may, therefore, be less likely to overeat and be overweight in the long run.” Stay aware Stay aware of your child’s weight and growth.
(15) As part of a large survey of addictive behavior in high school students, 43% of a sample of 278 (26% of the males, 57% of the females) scored above the cutoff point set by Overeaters Anonymous on their scale for assessing compulsive overeating.
(16) Although it is possible to overeat the gastric pouch, the overall result of gastric bypass, in terms of weight loss, is quite satisfactory, and the mortality rate of less than 2 per cent and the morbidity rate of less than 20 per cent are also acceptable.
(17) Adopted an ecological framework to view mutual-help groups, and illustrated its usefulness by examining aspects of the social ecology of "fit" among 163 members of Compassionate Friends (bereaved parents; CF), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Overeaters Anonymous (OA) groups.
(18) The findings suggest that a normal woman need not overeat to ensure normal growth of her fetus.
(19) It was hypothesized that hamsters do not overeat following 2DG administration because of unusually strong aversive effects of the drug in this species.
(20) While all three samples were similar on the Motivation scales, Smokers differed substantially from Alcoholics and Overeaters on the Style scales and in terms of Emotional effects.