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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
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diet Strictly, a diet is simply the pattern of foods eaten; the normal or habitual intake of food of an individual or population. Commonly used to mean a modified pattern of food consumption for some special purpose, e.g. a
slimming,
therapeutic, or low‐salt diet (see
salt‐free diets) and sometimes named for the person who originated it.
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Diet Coke Unveils 'Effervescent' New Ad Campaign and Graphics; Ads feature actors Kate Beckinsale and Adrien Brody ... and lots of bubbles.
PR Newswire; 5/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...Beckinsale, Brody and bubbles, and they star alongside Diet Coke in a new advertising campaign for the world's number one diet soft drink. Kate Beckinsale and Adrien Brody are featured in Diet Coke television ads slated to hit the air this month...
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Diets pile on protein
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...reintroduce carbs into their diets after their first two weeks on the diet. A medical checkup...starting one of the diets, and medical monitoring while on the diet also is important...said. Some of the diet-book authors also...that people on the diets take a potassium supplement...
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Diet Trends in the United States 2008.
M2 Presswire; 7/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...popular - Low Fat - Diet popular for adaptation Calorie Counting Diets do not get high points...satisfied with current diets Figure 16: Satisfaction with diet plans (summary of...Usage of specific diet foods, 2007, and usage of diets or food
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Which diet best reduces cardiovascular disease risk?
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...on blood pressure and serum lipids. The Diets The healthy diets comprised a carbohydrate rich diet similar to the DASH diet, a protein rich...compliance or non-compliance with the diet. The diets were designed at 5 caloric levels, and...
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Diet Steaz? Yes Pleaze!!!; Diet Steaz Sparkling Green Tea Offers Consumers the First Ever Low-Carb, Organically Sweetened Diet Drink.
Business Wire; 12/4/2003; 657 words
; ...has ever been able to achieve that; Diet Steaz is truly unique." The Healthy...Entrepreneur's best businesses." Diet Steaz Sparkling Green Tea will be...time for the New Year's Resolution Diets. Diet Steaz and Steaz Soda are distributed...
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Diet cops bust scale-busters. (Specialized Diet Consultants) (company profile)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/9/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...33 billion this year on diets and diet-related products and...waiting room of another diet program, joined forces...frustration with other diets led them to devise their...dietician, they put together a diet program that incorporates...
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Ketogenic diet underused for control of seizures: biology is not understood, but studies show the high-fat, low-carb diet is effective for epilepsy patients.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...MAUI, HAWAII -- A high-fat ketogenic diet is effective in helping epilepsy patients...said Dr. Eileen P.G. Vining. The diet is not difficult. It can be palatable...Pediatrics. It has been estimated that the diet is initiated in only about 2,500 patients...
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Homemade diets: better? The pet food recall caused owners to panic and rethink the way they feed their animals. Here's how to do it safely.(Nutrition)
Magazine article from: Dog Watch; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...interest in homemade diets hinges largely on...contaminated food if its diet is made entirely of...feeding a homemade diet, there are several...additional aspects of fresh diets that should be considered...choosing to prepare fresh diets for their dogs; however, formulating a diet ...
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Diets cankill you.(Verve)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa); 5/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...waste time deciding which diet to follow. Lo carb or...difference. It is not the diet that determines how much...of losing weight. All diets - and there are zillions...recommended in many diets to promote weight loss...This is the Mediterranean diet, long known to be protective...
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Diet Quality Is Associated with the Risk of Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women1
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...KEY WORDS: * breast cancer * diet * nutrition * estrogen receptor Several diet quality indices have been developed...healthfulness of individual diets. These indices are usually...dietary guidelines. However, diet indices have not been tested...
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diets
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
diets A diet is a pattern of food...in populations with a diet high in salt . ‘Western’ diets The diets of affluent...a weight-reduction diet. Numerous types of weight-reducing diets have been marketed...
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Diets
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...excesses occur. Diet plans that claim...uncountable. These diets employ a variety...with the overall diet, simply with one...as fat or energy. Diets also may be classified...low carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins diet. Most physician...
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Mediterranean Diet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...the Mediterranean diet is associated with...Where traditional diets conforming to the...that no single such diet exists and that to...dietary changes. Also, diets in the Mediterranean...necessary to consume diets similar to those traditionally...the Mediterranean diet is one ...
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Diets and Dieting
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
DIETS AND DIETING DIETS AND DIETING. Although "diet" most broadly refers to the intake...diet during the 1930s and 1940s, diet therapy and dieting were finally...amenable to good health, faddish diets and quick-fix weight loss plans...
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Pritikin Diet
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...spent the next 20 years researching diet and nutrition , experimenting with a variety of diets , such as eating only meats or only...program combining moderate exercise with a diet low in fat and high in fiber was most...
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