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Dieting vs. Fasting — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dieting and Fasting

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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.

Fasting

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

Dieting

The usual food and drink of a person or animal.

Fasting

To abstain from food.

Dieting

A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
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Fasting

To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline.

Dieting

Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly
Subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.

Fasting

The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.

Dieting

Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal
The diet industry.

Fasting

A period of such abstention or self-denial.
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Dieting

Having fewer calories.

Fasting

Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.

Dieting

Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.

Fasting

Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.

Dieting

Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite
Diet pills.
Diet drugs.

Fasting

Abstaining from food

Dieting

To eat and drink according to a regulated system, especially so as to lose weight or control a medical condition.

Dieting

To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.

Dieting

Present participle of diet

Dieting

The practice of following a diet.

Dieting

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

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