[
US
/ˈdaɪət/
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[ UK /dˈaɪət/ ]
[ UK /dˈaɪət/ ]
NOUN
- a prescribed selection of foods
- the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
- the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)
- a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
VERB
- eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
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follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet
How To Use diet In A Sentence
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
- The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
- While on the elimination diet, try to avoid hanging on to a few favourite foods and eating only those. The Allergy Handbook
- I eat a lot of chicken and fish, rice and pasta and maintain an all-round healthy diet. Times, Sunday Times
- When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
- Anybody who has tried to follow a rigorous diet will know how easy it is to lapse back into bad habits. Times, Sunday Times
- diet cola
- The best philosophy is to change your food habits to a low-sugar, high-fibre diet.
- Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated. Chapter 11
