Diet

Diet may refer to:

Food

• Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group
• Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake
• Diet food, foods that aid in dieting
• Cuisine, the diet of a particular culture

Origin

The word “diet” comes from the Greek root word “diaita”, which means “to live one’s life,” and from the Latin root word, “diaeta,” meaning a “manner of living”. 1 1. http://bennettjackie.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/where-exactly-does-the-word-diet-come-from-anyway.html

Other uses

• Diet (assembly), formal deliberative assembly
  • Diet of Finland, the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906
  • Diet of Hungary, the legislative assembly of the Kingdom of Hungary from 15th century to 1946
  • Diet of Japan, Japan's legislature
  • Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire), the imperial assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806
  • State Diet (In German: Landtag), state parliament of most of the German federated states
  • The Diet of the Empire (In German: Reichstag), legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871–1917
  • The Federal Diet (In German: Deutscher Bundestag), federal parliament of Germany
• DIET: an open-source middleware for high-performance computing
• Diet, India, District Institute(s) of Education and Training in India
• "Diet", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

See also

• Dietsch (disambiguation): distinguishes the southern dialects in the Middle Dutch language