diet
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Example
“The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.”
Other meanings
A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
“He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.”
Any habitual intake or consumption.
“He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.”
Kinds of diet
- balanced diet
- ulcer diet
- carbohydrate loading
- vitamin-deficiency diet
- light diet
- liquid diet
- salt-free diet
- reducing diet
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "δίαιτα".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “diet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.