A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health
Diet drinks or foods have been specially produced so that they do not contain many calories. sugar-free diet drinks
The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government
Refers to the food an individual consumes Also a special or limited selection of food and drink, chosen or prescribed for health or to gain or lose weight
the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) a prescribed selection of foods a legislative assembly in certain countries (e
follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"
If you are dieting, you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight. I've been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child + dieting diet·ing She has already lost around two stone through dieting
If you are fed on a diet of something, especially something unpleasant or of poor quality, you receive or experience a very large amount of it. The radio had fed him a diet of pop songs. to limit the amount and type of food that you eat, in order to become thinner = slim. Japanese national legislature. Under the Meiji Constitution, the Diet had two houses, a House of Peers and a House of Representatives, with equal powers. The Diet's role was largely negative: it could block legislation and veto budgets. It was reconstituted under the U.S.-sponsored constitution of 1947. The (upper) House of Councillors seats 247 members, and the (lower) House of Representatives has 480 members. The prime minister, who leads the majority party in the lower house, must be a member. The House of Representatives can override the House of Councillors on most issues