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diet

noun as in abstinence from food

verb as in abstain from food

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He trains like a professional athlete in any other sport, with early-morning gym sessions, a diet of healthful foods and all-day practice.

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Rather than revamp the industry, these critics suggest alternatives such as meat-free diets to fulfill our need for protein.

In some cases, bacteria could even use these electrons to fuel growth in much the same way that humans use electrons from carbohydrates in the diet for energy.

As a snapshot of the dino’s diet, the gut contents “can tell us more about dinosaur behavior,” Chin says.

Some of the data that scientists have about dinosaur diets comes from coprolites.

Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.

There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.

Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.

Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.

“Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.

Excretion of these substances is greatly increased by a diet rich in nuclei, as sweetbreads and liver.

I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.

The stools of infants are yellow, owing partly to their milk diet and partly to the presence of unchanged bilirubin.

The poor fellow's health so gave way under this meagre diet, that he died before his course of study was finished.

"I don't suppose any Frenchman is given to cannibalistic diet," he answered, smiling.

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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to diet, such as: dietary, fast, regime, regimen, restriction, and starvation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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