excessive consumption

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessiveandconsumption

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excessive
adjective
uk
/ekˈses.ɪv/us
/ekˈses.ɪv/
too ...
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consumption
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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(Definition ofexcessiveandconsumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Both the disease and addiction metaphors highlight internal corporeal and psychological variables and hide environmental and contextual variables that influenceexcessiveconsumption.
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Answers to such questions await the theoretical and empirical elaboration of the behavioral momentum metaphor in relation toexcessiveconsumption.
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But what are the contextual forces that will push and pull theexcessiveconsumptionso as to raise or lower its velocity or mass?
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In advanced countries it is more related toexcessiveconsumption.
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Like the behavioral economic metaphor and unlike the disease and addiction metaphors, the behavioral momentum metaphor would tend to highlight the contextual determinants ofexcessiveconsumption.
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Because of this historical and contemporary imbalance, relatively less attention has been and is paid to the contextual features of behavior-environment relations that prevent, generate, perpetuate, and reduceexcessiveconsumption.
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A positive aspect of the behavioral economic metaphor forexcessiveconsumptionis that it reverses the priorities of the disease and addiction metaphors and highlights the contextual determinants of consumption.
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Avicenna caused by a putrefied phlegmatic ulcer (apostemata phlegmaticum) within the skull (fullness of the stomach, overdrinking, andexcessiveconsumptionof onions may trigger the process of putrefaction).
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I would like to focus on the damage done to health byexcessiveconsumptionof all types of alcoholic drinks.
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It appears from the report that in present circumstances there is no danger ofexcessiveconsumptionof vitamins due to food fortified with these substances.
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Clearly we want to ensure that theexcessiveconsumptionof alcohol is, as far as possible, prevented and that under-age drinking is not encouraged.
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Oral cancer can result from smoking andexcessiveconsumptionof alcohol.
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Figures are not maintained forexcessiveconsumptionof alcohol among service personnel.
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Patients identified as being at high risk of developing osteoporosis should be given advice on diet, exercise, avoidingexcessiveconsumptionof alcohol and reducing smoking.
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I accept that the avoidance of drinking-up time, which is often associated withexcessiveconsumption, is a benefit.
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There is no doubt thatexcessiveconsumptionof alcohol needs to be stopped by means of appropriate education at an early stage.
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Product lifecycles is a philosophy which occupies a special place amongst the measures designed to limitexcessiveconsumption.
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Our aim is to put a stop to theexcessiveconsumptionof alcoholic drinks among young people.
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Certainly the badness of our children's teeth at quite an early age is attributed by the medical profession to theexcessiveconsumptionof sweets.
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