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Diet food (or dietetic food) refers to any food or beverage whose recipe is altered to reduce fat, carbohydrates, and/or sugar in order to make it part of a weight loss program or diet.

Such foods are usually intended to assist in weight loss or a change in body type, although bodybuilding supplements are designed to aid in gaining weight or muscle.

Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight.

In other words, it is conscious control or restriction of the diet.

A restricted diet is often used by those who are overweight or obese, sometimes in combination with physical exercise, to reduce body weight.

Some people follow a diet to gain weight (usually in the form of muscle).

Diets can also be used to maintain a stable body weight and improve health.

In particular, diets can be designed to prevent or treat diabetes.

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes specific, prepared food, or the food eaten on that occasion.

The names used for specific meals in English vary greatly, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.

A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve overall health.

A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, adequate essential amino acids from protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and adequate calories.

The requirements for a healthy diet can be met from a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods.

A healthy diet supports energy needs and provides for human nutrition without exposure to toxicity or excessive weight gain from consuming excessive amounts.

Where lack of calories is not an issue, a properly balanced diet (in addition to exercise) is also thought to be important for lowering health risks, such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cancer.

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for .

Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus.

Fungi digest organic matter outside of their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies.

For humans, eating is an activity of daily living.

Some individuals may limit their amount of nutritional intake.

This may be a result of a lifestyle choice, due to hunger or famine, as part of a diet or as religious fasting.