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2. Dieting - Wikipedia

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   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.As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-reduced diets, such as those emphasising particular macronutrients (low-fat, low-carbohydrate, etc.), have been shown to be no more effective than one another.

3. Caloric deficit - Wikipedia

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   Social aspects. v. t. e. A caloric deficit (also known as calorie deficit, in British English calorific deficit) is any shortage in the number of calories consumed relative to the number of calories needed for maintenance of current body weight ( energy homeostasis ). A deficit can be created by decreasing calories consumed by lower food intake ...

4. Calorie - Wikipedia

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   The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat. [1] [2] The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, or kilogram calorie is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one liter of water by one degree Celsius (or one kelvin ). [1] [3] The small calorie or gram calorie is defined as the ...

5. Healthy diet - Wikipedia

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   A meta-analysis found no difference between diet types (low-fat, low-carbohydrate, and low-calorie), with a 2–4 kilograms (4.4–8.8 lb) weight loss. This level of weight loss is by itself insufficient to move a person from an 'obese' body mass index (BMI) category to a 'normal' BMI.

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   We developed a list of meals from the top seven fast food chains, plus Chipotle. The weight we used is based off of the average weight of an American male (195.5 pounds) and female (166.2 pounds ...

7. Reference Daily Intake - Wikipedia

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   Reference Daily Intake. In the U.S. and Canada, the Reference Daily Intake ( RDI) is used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products to indicate the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States.