0 present participle of diet
1 to limit the food and/or drink that you have, especially in order to lose weight:
Dieting decreases plasma tryptophan and increases the prolactin response to d-fenfluramine in women but not men.
Accordingly, most of the older respondents attributed their dieting primarily to concerns about the health implications of being overweight.
A prospective test of the dual-pathway model of bulimic pathology : mediating effects of dieting and negative affect.
The perception that dieting is a necessary body management behaviour seems to have arisen earlier in the women's lives, often in relation to significant others.
While dieting programmes are the most widely used treatments of obesity, attempts to control body weight by dieting are generally unsuccessful.
The anorexic sisters had lower levels of all the risk factors within the dieting domain, apart from a family history of eating disorders.
We wished to check the extent to which dieting behaviour reduces well-being, and whether all aspects of dieting affect well-being in the same way.
Only two of the women, both of whom were in their mid-seventies and college educated, were currently attending formal dieting programmes.
