DIET

Diet

In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons . Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy.

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DIET

DIET is a software for grid-computing. As middleware, DIET sits between the operating system and the application software . DIET was created in 2000. It was designed for high-performance computing. It is currently developed by INRIA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, SysFera. It is open-source software released under the CeCILL license.

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diet

Noun

  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
    The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
  2. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
    He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
  4. A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

Verb

  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
    I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.


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