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A plan you start Monday, abandon Wednesday, and mourn on Sunday with cake.
means A regulated way of eating — either the food you habitually consume or a deliberate restriction of it for health or weight loss.
from From Greek 'diaita,' meaning a way of life or mode of living — not just food, but the whole regimen of how you ran your existence. It traveled through Latin 'diaeta' and Old French 'diete' into English, where the grand idea of 'how to live well' gradually shrank down to 'what's on the plate.' (The political 'diet' — an assembly, as in the Diet of Worms — is a separate word, likely tangled up with Latin 'dies,' day, meaning a day's appointed meeting.)
- origin word
- From Greek 'diaita,' meaning a whole way of living
- parliament pun
- Japan's legislature is literally called the Diet
- yo-yo effect
- Most regain lost weight within a few years
- first fad
- William Banting popularized low-carb dieting in 1863
- brain fuel
- Your brain burns 20% of daily calories doing nothing visible
atkins diet — low-carb diet created by dr. robert atkins in 1972, popularized in the 2000s
mediterranean diet — eating pattern from greece, italy, spain ranked #1 healthiest diet by us news 2024
keto diet — high-fat, low-carb regimen that became mainstream around 2017