What's the difference between diet and pantophagy?

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.

Pantophagy


Definition:

  • (n.) The habit or power of eating all kinds of food.

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