overnutrition
overnutrition — noun
1. a condition in which the body takes in more food or nutrients than it can use, o
a condition in which the body takes in more food or nutrients than it can use, often leading to obesity, diabetes, or heart disease
Yan's dietitian traced his constant tiredness to overnutrition rather than a thyroid problem.
pattern: traced [symptom] to overnutrition rather than [other cause]
Nkechi learned at her prenatal visit that overnutrition during pregnancy had raised her blood pressure dangerously.
collocation: overnutrition during pregnancy
Dr. Sana's study of Manila families found that overnutrition now causes more illness than undernutrition.
Diego ate so much processed food each day that overnutrition began to strain his heart.
A Recife study linked rising overnutrition in Brazil to cheap sugary drinks flooding school canteens.
- overeating
focuses only on food quantity, not on excess of specific nutrients
- hyperalimentation
formal medical term, used mainly in clinical settings
- undernutrition
the condition of receiving too little food or nutrients
- starvation
a severe form of undernutrition caused by extreme lack of food
用法筆記
Common in medical and public-health writing; in everyday speech, people are more likely to say 'eating too much' or 'overeating.'