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Light diet   /laɪt dˈaɪət/   Listen
Light diet

noun
1.
Diet prescribed for bedridden or convalescent people; does not include fried or highly seasoned foods.






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"Light diet" Quotes from Famous Books



... of paper over which Sidney spent much time. It was a page torn out of an order book, and it read: "Sigsbee may have light diet; Rosenfeld massage." Underneath was ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... disapproval of foreign food. The sorrows of the beef-eating Englishman among the continentals were always poignant. Dallington is only one of the many travellers who, unable to grasp the fact that warmer climes called for light diet, reproached the Italians especially for their "parsimony and thin feeding." In Henry the Eighth's time there was already a saying among the Italians, "Give the Englishman his beef and mustard,"[221] ...
— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard

... Charles thought, would have a good opportunity of testing the quality of that kind of food, and of finding out what an extremely light diet it was for a strong man ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest



Words linked to "Light diet" :   diet



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