Diet vs. Nutrition

Dietnoun

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

Dietnoun

(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

Dietnoun

(by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.

Dietnoun

(usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

Dietnoun

The proceedings under a criminal libel.

Dietnoun

(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

Dietadjective

(of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

Dietadjective

Having certain traits subtracted.

Dietverb

(transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

Dietverb

(intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

Dietverb

(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.

Dietverb

To cause to take food; to feed.

Dietnoun

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

Dietnoun

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

Dietnoun

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.

Dietverb

To cause to take food; to feed.

Dietverb

To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

Dietverb

To eat; to take one's meals.

Dietverb

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

Dietnoun

a prescribed selection of foods

Dietnoun

a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

Dietnoun

the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

Dietnoun

the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

Dietverb

follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons;

Dietverb

eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

Nutritionnoun

(biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.

Nutritionnoun

That which nourishes; nutriment.

Nutritionnoun

In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which a living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.

Nutritionnoun

In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.

Nutritionnoun

That which nourishes; nutriment.

Nutritionnoun

(physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance

Nutritionnoun

a source of materials to nourish the body

Nutritionnoun

the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

Nutrition

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It includes ingestion, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion.The science that studies the physiological process of nutrition is called nutritional science (also nutrition science).