Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to diet; dietetic: used to note those diseases which are caused by or connected with the use of improper or bad food.
- noun A course of diet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dietetic.
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- adjective Relating to
diet ;dietetic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This popularity passed through all environmental, dietic, and morality censors in our society.
Global Voices in English » Syria: A Week Against Everything and Anything 2009
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Isn't President Obama aware that dietic - low glycemic foods cost more?
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Which would you prefer: An extra $100 for dietic food, or $180,000 a month for Hospital costs if or when John has a Diabetic blackout or slips into a Coma?
Conrad: Dems lack votes to pass health care reform on their own 2009
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The primary causes of cervical spondylytis are faulty posture, injury, incorrect nutrition resulting from dietic errors and physiological strain due to lack of exercise.
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Common dietic errors should however be avoided by the patient.
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San Francisco, the home of safe haven for illegal immigrants and free sex for AIDS carriers is suddenly worried about the dietic health of children.
Attack of the Food Police - Steve Chapman - Townhall Conservative 2010
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I will apply dietic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment;
Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com mad1 2010
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I will apply dietic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment;
Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com mad1 2010
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The effect of these observations chimed in very remarkably with the physiological experiments it had been my duty to carry out, and which tended to show in a most striking manner that the action of alcohol in the body very much differed from the ordinary opinion that had been held upon it, and thereupon, in my own practice, I abandoned the use of alcohol, and began to give instead small quantities of simple, nourishing, dietic food, a course I pursued up to the present time with the most satisfactory results, results I have never felt any occasion to regret.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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After that, so much depends upon the hygienic and dietic management that I do not feel justified in making an absolutely favorable prognosis. "
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