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It refers to the act of not eating enough or consuming an insufficient amount of food, often resulting in malnourishment or weight loss. Example: "The diet plan recommended by the nutritionist was causing the patient to experience severe undereating and potential health risks."
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undereating
verb
Present participle of undereat
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Before, it was believed if someone overate at one meal, they compensated by undereating later.
Overeating can be as problematic as undereating.
Other signs are symptoms like chronic insomnia, overeating or undereating, or lack of interest in your favorite activities or sports teams.
Mr. Fitzgerald, who is certified by the International Society of Sports Nutrition, writes that runners can help their bodies adapt to the rigors of racing by intentionally undereating during training.
Levkoff is the only suiteholder not to be renewed for undereating or any other reason, Favorito added.
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by low body weight, propensity for drastic undereating, intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat (despite being underweight), and a distorted body image.
- Having judged your own body by such unattainable standards, enter a period of self-destructive, compulsive undereating of the kind that will inevitably be followed by a period of self-destructive, compulsive overeating.
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"You enjoy food, you don't undereat or overeat often, you don't meet any of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia.
But people tend to overeat junk food in higher proportion than they undereat vegetables, said Dr. Deborah A. Cohen, a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation.
But what happens when one of these new apps accidentally burns down your house, or kills your grandmother by mistakenly turning down the heating, or miscalculates your food intake and causes you to undereat, then faint while driving?
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