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Dieting
729 words, approx. 2 pages
regulating one's food intake for the purpose of improving one's physical condition, especially for the purpose of reducing obesity, or what is conceived to be excess body fat. Dieting plans are based on the reduction of any of the macronutrients (fats,...
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Dieting
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Regulating food intake to improve physical condition, especially to lose weight. Examples include diets low in fat for weight loss, low in saturated fat and cholesterol to prevent or help treat coronary heart disease, or high in carbohydrates and...
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Dieting Summary
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It would be hard to find anyone in the United States, or in any other part of the Western world, who has not at one time gone on a weight-loss diet. Perhaps the most long-lived fad of our society, the diet craze has grown and expanded its influence...
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Dieting Information
2,580 words, approx. 9 pages
Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve a particular objective. In many cases the goal is weight loss, but some athletes aspire to gain weight (usually in the form of muscle) and diets can also be used to maintain a...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With dieting
01/17/2000: 775 words, approx. 3 pages
Pulse With dieting, it's a matter of weight and see By JOHN FAUBER of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, January 17, 2000 By now, most of us have seen all the lists of great 20th-century health breakthroughs. Fortunately,...
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The Independent - London
To diet for
01/12/2008: 844 words, approx. 3 pages
The Weasel Despite being inundated with suggestions for reductive regimens, not least in the pages of this newspaper, I have yet to embark on a New Year diet. The reason I have not joined in the communal mortification of the flesh is that...
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Ponder Natural Health Notes
Another Piece of the Dieting Puzzle
5/25/2007: 937 words, approx. 3 pages
Are you confused by the conflicting reports about low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets? Dieters aren't the only ones. The researchers who design studies, even when they try to be as fair as possible, often don't know all the variables that should be taken into account....
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AP News
Cancer risk higher with Western diet
7/12/2007: 512 words, approx. 2 pages
Older Chinese women who eat a Western-style diet loaded with meats and sweets appear to have a greater risk for breast cancer than women who eat mainly soy and vegetables, a new study has concluded.Previous research has found connections between a meat- and fat-heavy Western...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Dieting
327 words, approx. 1 pages
There are many types of diets, but not all of them are healthy. Diets serve one of two purposes: to eat healthy, such as an athlete training for competition; and to lose weight. Some people go on diets to lose weight when they are not obese at all; this can lead to loss not only of weight, but also of important strength and body tissues.


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