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  1. noun The usual food and drink of a person or animal.
  2. noun A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
  3. noun Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly: subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.
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  • Growing cabbage for your diet is a nice way to ensure that you get the best grown cabbage in ... —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • This diet is the easiest diet to do for weight loss. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Being able to properly plan and follow your diet is a very important skill to have. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Simply put, no matter how much you exercise if your diet is awful losing weight will be fairly difficult. —  Article Source
  • Limiting salt in the diet is also beneficial for those with syndrome-X (hypertension, hyperinsulinemia and high triglycerides).
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diet:   dieting ·  diets
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  1. Middle English diete, from Old French, from Latin diaeta, way of living, diet, from Greek diaita, back-formation from diaitāsthai, to live one's life, middle voice of diaitān, to treat.
  2. Middle English diete, day's journey, day for meeting, assembly, from Medieval Latin diēta, alteration (influenced by Latin diēs, day) of Latin diaeta, daily routine; see diet1.

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  1. from Middle English diete, from Old French diete, French diète = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian dieta = Dutch diëet = German diät = Danish diœt = Swedish diet = Polish dyet = Russian dieta, from Latin diœta, Late Latin and Middle Latin also dieta, and sometimes zœta, zeta, a prescribed manner of living, diet, a dwelling-place, summer-house, etc., Middle Latin also food, from Greek δίαιτα, manner of living, especially a prescribed manner of living, diet, also a dwelling, perhaps from *διάειν, supposed orig. form of ζάειν, contr. ζῆν, live, perhaps = Sanskrit √ jīv = Zend √ jī, live, akin to L. vivus = English quick, living: see quick, vivid, vital, etc.
  2. from Middle English dieten (cf. Greek διαιτᾶν, v.); from the noun.
  3. from Old French diete, French diète = Spanish Portuguese Italian dieta, from Middle Latin dieta, diœta, a public assembly (orig. one held on a set day), a set day of trial, a day's journey; the same in form as dieta, diœta, a prescribed manner of living, diet, but no doubt regarded as a derivative (a quasi past participle feminine noun) of Latin dies, a day: see dial. Cf. Dutch rijksdag = German reichstag = Danish rigsdag = Swedish riksdag, the national assembly, literally the diet of the realm; tag, etc., = English day.
 

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