dieting
节食,减肥,节制饮食,饮食
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Definitions
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- : food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Milk is a wholesome article of diet.
- : a particular selection of food, especially as designed or prescribed to improve a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease: a diet low in sugar.
- : such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I'm on a diet.
- : the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group: The native diet consists of fish and fruit.
- : food or feed habitually eaten or provided: The rabbits were fed a diet of carrots and lettuce.
- : anything that is habitually provided or partaken of: Television has given us a steady diet of game shows and soap operas.
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di·et·ed, di·et·ing.
- : to regulate the food of, especially in order to improve the physical condition.
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Examples
He trains like a professional athlete in any other sport, with early-morning gym sessions, a diet of healthful foods and all-day practice.
Rather than revamp the industry, these critics suggest alternatives such as meat-free diets to fulfill our need for protein.
In some cases, bacteria could even use these electrons to fuel growth in much the same way that humans use electrons from carbohydrates in the diet for energy.
As a snapshot of the dino’s diet, the gut contents “can tell us more about dinosaur behavior,” Chin says.
Some of the data that scientists have about dinosaur diets comes from coprolites.
Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.
There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.
Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
“Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.
Excretion of these substances is greatly increased by a diet rich in nuclei, as sweetbreads and liver.
I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.
The stools of infants are yellow, owing partly to their milk diet and partly to the presence of unchanged bilirubin.
The poor fellow's health so gave way under this meagre diet, that he died before his course of study was finished.