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dieting
(redirected from Starvation diet)

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dieting

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 protein to build muscle. Weight-loss diets are based on reducing calorie intake in different proportions of fat, carbohydrate, or protein; most result in some weight loss, but often the weight is gained back within a few years. Diets must include adequate nutrition and are most effective combined with exercise. Appetite suppressants may have dangerous side effects. Excessive weight loss may be a sign of anorexia nervosa.
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Such policy would emphasize development of new energy technologies, and eschew the starvation diet of the Kyoto Protocol.
Planet Gore by National Review
Those who found it possible to disregard rising dependence on out-of-state tuition, students' staggering debt loads and lowest-in-the-nation faculty salaries were able to persuade themselves that Oregon universities could adapt to a starvation diet.
A sign of stagnation by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
In the program for the musical about the political prison camp they survived, the show's creators describe public executions, forced labor and starvation diets.
WEST HILLS KOREAN CHURCH OFFERS PRAYERS FOR OPPRESSED BRETHREN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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