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Origin and history of dieting

dieting(n.)

c. 1400, "act of eating; act of regulating food intake according to regimen," verbal noun from diet (v.).

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late 14c., "to regulate one's diet for the sake of health," from Old French dieter, from diete "fare" (see diet (n.1)); meaning "to regulate oneself as to food" (especially against fatness) is from 1650s. Related: Dieted; dieting. An obsolete word for this is banting.

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