Word: overeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century, Richard Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, sailed from England to Russia. He reported: "The Russian upper classes overeat and overdrink; but the poor is very innumerable, and live most miserably . . . nor the fish cannot be so stinking nor rotten, but they will...
What makes people overeat? Insecurity and immaturity, as a rule, says Dr. Bruch: "Quite often it is the youngest or an only child who becomes obese. . . . Fathers usually play a subordinate role in the emotional life of the obese family. The mothers are dominant in their influence. . . ." Coddled, overfed and overprotected by a doting mother, the chubby child grows up with a "fundamentally low self-esteem and with the conviction of his helplessness in a world which has been represented to him as a dangerous place...
After the operation, he tends to overeat, may double his weight if he is not careful. But in six months to a year, as new patterns form, he becomes a cheerful extrovert. Psychologists have found no evidence that lobotomy impairs intelligence, though foresight and initiative are often diminished. At Boston's Psychopathic Hospital, whose staffmen have done 200 lobotomies, Director Harry Caesar Solomon reports that patients, after lobotomy, have done well as college students, math teachers, businessmen...
...from their pack animals, elephant meat, boiled python, boiled grass. When they returned to the Indian frontier they were ravenous. Brigadier Wingate ate as much as his men, was asked by a solicitous general if he was not eating too heavily. Said he: "I find it quite impossible to overeat. During the march I read Xenophon and Plato's dialogues with Socrates. Now I find that moderation has become my guiding thought-wonderfully soothing...
...from overeating not from glands. This blunt statement was made last week in the leading U.S. gland journal (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology) by Stanford University's Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting. As cautious as the next doctor, Dr. Cutting offered no pat explanation of why people overeat. Wrote he: "Certainly the girl disappointed in love may take to candy, or a mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation by eating"; or maybe...