Glossary

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  • Dietician

    An individual whose training and experience are in the area of nutrition and who has the ability to apply that information to the dietary needs of the healthy and sick.  

  • Diethyltryptamine

    A hallucinogenic agent that at low doses has effects similar to those of LSD.  

  • Diethyltoluamide

    An effective insect repellent, especially for repelling arthropods such as ticks and mosquitoes and flies.  

  • Dietetic treatment

    Treatment of disease based on regulation of diet.  

  • Yo-yo diet

    A popular term to describe a dietary practice resulting in alternating cycles of losing and regaining weight.  

  • Western diet

    A diet with inadequate fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fish, and low-fat dairy products and excessive amounts of refined and processed foods, alcohol, salt, red meats, sugary beverages, snacks, eggs, and butter. The Western diet, which is low in potassium, high in sodium, fats, and simple carbohydrates, has been implicated in many diseases, including atherosclerosis,…

  • Tyramine-free diet

    A diet for patients taking monoamine-oxidase inhibitors in which fermented foods, aged cheeses, wine, stimulants, and decongestants are eliminated to avoid a possible hyperadrenergic crisis from the combination of these drugs with tyramine-rich substances.  

  • Residue-free diet

    A diet without cellulose or roughage. Semisolid and bland foods are included. Low-residue diets are used to prepare the colon for barium enemas or colonoscopy and occasionally to help manage Crohn’s disease.  

  • Reducing diet

    A diet designed to help people lose weight (i.e., a diet with a restricted number of calories and a carefully crafted balance of other nutrients).  

  • Peptide diet

    A diet in which nitrogen content is provided as simple amino acids (or small strings linked by amino acids) rather than as intact proteins.