What's the difference between diet and dieter?

Diet


Definition:

  • (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
  • (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
  • (v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
  • (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
  • (v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
  • (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
  • (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
  • (3) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (5) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
  • (6) Diet consumption decreased as the concentration of ethanol increased in the diet.
  • (7) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
  • (8) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (9) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
  • (10) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
  • (11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
  • (12) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
  • (13) In our experience, body weight, insulin requirements, glycemic control, and serum lipids are well managed by such diets for up to 10 years of follow-up.
  • (14) One week after azoxymethane injection, animals were transferred to their respective experimental diets containing piroxicam and DFMO.
  • (15) Kidney DAAO activity was significantly higher in chicks fed either the DL-AA or .5 DL-AA diet as compared with the L-AA diet.
  • (16) When the two most toxic isolates (diets) were diluted, survival time increased but severe growth suppression was evident.
  • (17) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
  • (18) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
  • (19) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
  • (20) ACTH also suppressed aldosterone biosynthesis in rats kept on a sodium-deficient diet.

Dieter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to the issue of complexity in perception, the findings clearly contradicted the notion that dieters simply dichotomize food into "good" and "bad" categories.
  • (2) However, a group of dieters do progress to develop the symptoms and behaviour of eating disorders, so that dieting has been associated with an eight-fold rise in the risk of later eating disorder.
  • (3) However, Dieter Helm believes these challenges can be overcome with political will.
  • (4) And the roads are getting very short here.” But Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington DC-based Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment organization, said it was doubtful that Texas would get to a point where a lack of drugs led officials to fully suspend capital punishment.
  • (5) Of the whole population, 18.1% had spent more than half the time dieting (chronic dieters), 45.2% had dieted 50% of the time or less (periodic dieters), and 36.7% had not dieted during that period (nondieters).
  • (6) As compared with mean changes in controls, exercisers and dieters each decreased HDL3b and increased HDL2b.
  • (7) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
  • (8) One combination in the protocol – midazolam, hydromorphone and potassium chloride – is an experimental three-drug method never used in a United States execution, said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington DC.
  • (9) Professor Dieter Helm, an energy expert at Oxford University, said: "In the US, shale gas didn't exist in 2004.
  • (10) I think it is one of the most egregious examples of the problems of having the death penalty that I have seen in 20 years in the field,” said Dieter.
  • (11) In this report from a recent meeting, Johannes Gerdes and Hans-Dieter Flad describe these studies in the context of a growing awareness of the morphological, phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of the cells.
  • (12) A study of unsuccessful dieters focused on a group of 50 obese subjects who had previously joined a slimming organisation, but who had dropped out.
  • (13) In Little Dieter Needs to Fly and its feature-film remake Rescue Dawn (2006), he uses the same slow-motion footage of American bombers dropping napalm on to the Vietnamese countryside.
  • (14) According to Dieter Rucht of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin: "This is driving people to the barricades who don't normally go out on to the streets."
  • (15) This, though, turned out to be only the beginning, and the latest development in the unravelling of the Murdoch myth is like watching a dieter who has eaten one cupcake decide to go the whole hog and snarffle down the whole box.
  • (16) Anorectics, being "successful" dieters, lose a significant amount of weight; whereas bulimics alternate between binges and purges.
  • (17) The observation that merely smelling a "preload" is sufficient to produce "counterregulation" in dieters but not in nondieters challenges the explanatory power of the widely held cognitive explanation of experimental counterregulation in preloaded dieters.
  • (18) The hypothesis that repeat dieters would evidence more family dysfunction relative to the nondieters was not supported.
  • (19) The fasting state induced in the dieting subjects was comparable to that of eating disorder patients, since the dieters showed a reduction of the body mass index, a decrease in triiodothyronine and an increase in beta-hydroxybutyric acid plasma levels.
  • (20) The Situation-Based Dieting Self-Efficacy Scale (SDS) measures dieters' beliefs in their abilities to adhere to a diet in eating situations.

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