Diet

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Diet, in relation to food, might mean:

• Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group
• Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake
• Diet food, foods that aid in dieting
• Cuisine, the diet of a particular culture

Diet may also mean:

• Diet (assembly), formal deliberative assembly
  • The Imperial Diet (German Reichstag): the imperial assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806
  • The Diet of the Empire: (German: Reichstag) legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871–1917
  • The Federal Diet: (literally for German: Deutscher Bundestag) federal parliament of Germany
  • State Diet: (literally for German: Landtag) state parliament of most of the German federated states
  • Diet of Finland: the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906
  • Diet of Hungary: the legislative assembly of the Kingdom of Hungary from 15th century to 1946
  • Diet of Japan: Japan's legislature
• "Diet", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Dietsch (disambiguation): distinguishes the southern dialects in the Middle Dutch language
• DIET: an open-source middleware for high-performance computing, created in 2000 and currently developed by INRIA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, and the SysFera company.

• Diet, India:'District Institute (or Institutes) of Education and Training' in India

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Noun

diet (plural diets)

1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

   The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.

2. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
3. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.

   He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

4. (countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

Derived terms

• dietarian
• dietary
• dieter
• dietetics

Diet is defined as the usual food and drink of a person or animal. It can also mean a regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.

Sourced

• Der Mensch ist, was er isst.
• A man is what he eats.
  • Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung, 12th November 1850.

• Men are so imprudent that they take up a diet which, though it tastes sweet, is poisonous.
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Unsourced

• Simple diet is best.
  • Pliny

• Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
  • William Shakespeare

• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires.
  • Benjamin Franklin

• I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already.
  • Tommy Cooper

• Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet.
  • Lewis C. Henry

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