Dieting vs. Fasting

Dietingnoun

The act of following a diet.

Dietingnoun

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

Dieting

Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Dieting to lose weight is recommended for people with weight-related health problems, but not otherwise healthy people.

Fastingnoun

abstinence from food

Fastingnoun

abstaining from food

Fasting

Fasting is the willful refrainment from eating and sometimes drinking (see Water fasting and Juice fasting). From a purely physiological context, may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see the ), or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal.