Definition of Diet

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Definition of Diet

Diet

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

To cause to take food; to feed.

To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

To eat; to take one's meals.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

Any of various national or local assemblies;

Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc.

The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary.

The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.

The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.

The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66).

In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).

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Diet Quotations

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
Ron White

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
Maimonides

Diet Translations

diet in Afrikaans is dieet
diet in Dutch is dieet
diet in Italian is dieta
diet in Norwegian is diett
diet in Portuguese is dieta
diet in Spanish is dieta
diet in Swedish is diet, kost

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