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[dahy-it] / ˈdaɪ ɪt /




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Kander’s kosher cooking classes instructed young women how to cook American food within the restrictions of a traditional Jewish diet.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Makers of Abondance cheese in the Alps, for example, will be authorised to reduce the amount of pastured grass in their animals' diet from 50% to 15%.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

They examined how genotype, saturated fat consumption, diet type, and changes in LDL cholesterol from baseline to 6 months were related.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

There never was a single Mediterranean diet: Parts of more than 20 countries border that sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The men suffered from a diet that consisted almost entirely of meat.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Even so, many Western societies remain strongly resistant to entomophagy, or eating insects, despite the fact that hundreds of millions of people around the world already include insects in their diets.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

The problem most contemporary diets address is obesity.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

In fact, the diets of different groups of hunter-gatherers varied widely.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets."

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

All the pageant season diets my mom and I have done flip through my head like index cards.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

“I just couldn’t look like that no matter how much I dieted or went to the gym.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

“Apartments without dining rooms, as if anticipating a future where families disintegrated, compulsively dieted, or ate alone, in front of televisions.”

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024

For example, one study revealed that compared with daughters of nondieting women, 5-year-old girls whose mothers dieted were aware of the connection between dieting and thinness.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2024

The sales rep said: "I yo-yo dieted my whole life, for 30 years, and I got my sleeve two years ago."

From BBC Jan. 15, 2024

She binged and dieted and then cycled through it all again.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

“Lisa” represents a woman in her late 30s or 40s with a long history of dieting.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

People in both dieting groups also reported improvements in depression and overall well being, including on fasting days.

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

The intervention does not rely on extreme dieting.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

The loss of lean tissue is similar to weight loss from dieting, but the magnitude over a short period can lead to frailty, instability and lack of coordination, doctors and researchers say.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

She was always dieting, and I was always telling her not to.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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