diet
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We then decided to get a second opinion from another vet, who took a blood test and encouraged us to put Gumdrop on a wet-food diet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
In the experiment, aged mice receiving plasmalogen supplements appeared better able to form new neural connections and learn new tasks than mice eating a normal diet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Our findings provided no evidence that differences in diet or foraging were driving the development of the sharks' sex-specific head shapes," said Liu.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tessa Saunders, a family therapist at Cambridge's CEW clinic, says that schools should in some cases allow children to follow their own diet plans - even if it means breaking school rules.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"It's crazy, that's what it is," the mother said angrily: "Anyhow, this diet took over. When her sister got married, Sandi wouldn't even taste the wedding cake, taste!"
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Meanwhile, the food industry has tried to keep up with consumers’ interests in things like protein and fiber, as wellness trends and increased GLP-1 use reshape diets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
"We do know that diets got worse. We do know that children did a lot less physical activity. We know that for many children, they became quite isolated being taken out of schools," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Kennedy in particular has been invested in defending the honor of red meat, repeatedly arguing, against standard medical recommendations, that diets high in animal fat are good for you.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dental tartar can trap and preserve DNA from species that were regularly eaten, providing researchers with a record of ancient diets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The winter of 1916–17 became known as the “turnip winter,” when that humble vegetable became the staple of many diets.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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“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
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Both were usually euphemisms for the same thing: I was dieting, and I had already begun the day’s arithmetic.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“Lisa” represents a woman in her late 30s or 40s with a long history of dieting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
It found that people who came off weight-loss injections regained their lost pounds four times more quickly than those who stopped a programme of conventional dieting and exercising.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Most people had the sense not to share a dieting trick with an overweight person, but no one seemed to think it was wrong to share their acne remedies with me.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Nutrition - Introductory
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