dietary
Americanadjective
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noun
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a regulated diet
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a system of dieting
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Origin of dietary
1400–50; late Middle English dietarie system of diet. See diet 1, -ary
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In other words, ecology may have helped shape both dietary behavior and human biology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Barad said that polygenic scores could eventually help clinicians identify people who are more likely to experience unfavorable cholesterol changes after certain dietary modifications.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The fallibility of dietary advice is evident in the variability of regimens, fads and crazes that have been promulgated over the years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
If Americans know magnesium at all, it is as a dietary supplement or as “mag wheels” for car enthusiasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
A dietary aide, as I understand the job, is as dependent on a cook as a waitress is.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
One of the dietaries examined by the Massachusetts Labor Bureau was that of a machinist in Boston, who earned $3.25 per day.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
This quantity of 45 g. is however, higher, allowing for the boy's age, than that in several of the dietaries we have given in our table.
From The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan
At another time, we may be deeply concerned in the subject of prison discipline; and while studying reports, returns, and dietaries, the subject of workhouse discipline may become associated with it, and induce comparisons.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
The estimates of the quantities of food in the two dietaries just quoted were made from tradesmen's bills and the composition was calculated from analyses of similar materials rather than of those actually used.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
Scientific dietaries have been prepared with a view to teaching the poor to use nutritious and economical foods.
From Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers by Mary Ellen Richmond
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