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• v  overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

• In mice that are programmed to overeat and mice that are fed fatty diets, high levels of osteocalcin prevented both obesity and diabetes.
• Swithers stops short of saying that the animals in her study were compelled to overeat to compensate for phantom calories.
• Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear .

• gorge
• ingurgitate
• overindulge
• glut
• englut
• stuff
• engorge
• overgorge
• gormandize
• gormandise
• gourmandize
• binge
• pig out
• satiate
• scarf out

News & Articles

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• Overeating has unhealthy consequences
  Portion control is key in the fight to lose weight, or not gain it in the first place. / Getty Images / Comstock Images Dietitian Robyn Flipse offers these tips to help curb the desire to overeat: • Be mindful: “When we eat with distractions, we often don’t even remember that we ate or else we may feel like we didn’t eat that much, so we keep on eating.”
  June 17, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• Brian Wansink in Eat, Drink and Be (blog)
  An organic label gives a food a 'health halo,'said study coauthor Brian Wansink, Cornell University professor and author of the book Marketing Nutrition, to Science Daily. "It's the same basic reason people tend to overeat any snack food...
• Joey Chestnut in San Jose Mercury News
  This is the first time I got that kind of deal,Chestnut said with pride. "It makes perfect sense, though. You know, sometimes I overeat."
• David Sinclair in Boston Globe (registration)
  It's not an excuse to overeat,Sinclair said.