Word: overeat
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What makes Seabiscuit such a winning celebrity is that even before he died, he couldn't do the talk shows, couldn't write his autobiography and hadn't the faintest idea of how much people loved him. He was just an unhandsome little horse with a tendency to oversleep, overeat, act a little nutsy (difficult childhood) and win races...
Adults are free agents. They can overeat and gain weight if they want to. But perhaps what is most disturbing about their overeating is that they are unwittingly, and in myriad ways, passing on that tendency to children. It's not just that children pick up their parents' bad habits. There is growing evidence that what you eat early in life can permanently boost your body's desire for food...
...knows that diabetes is no fun. But researchers writing in this month's Diabetes Care report that diabetics are twice as likely to suffer from depression as the rest of us. Depression, it turns out, often precedes the onset of diabetes--and may contribute to it. Depressed patients often overeat and have sedentary lifestyles, both of which may promote insulin resistance. Furthermore, some antidepressants, particularly the older tricyclics, disrupt glucose control. The good news: proper treatment of depression may actually improve diabetes...
...Public Health, was the fact that today's snacks are packed with a greater concentration of calories than ever before. That jump in what nutritionists call "energy density" raises plenty of red flags, because the more calories per gram in a particular snack, the easier it is to overeat...