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Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by msla on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:26PM (#16423864)
If you want to be technical, any habitual pattern of eating is a diet.

But technicalities don't define words, usage and context do, and, for the vast majority of people, including people here, diet means a change in your habitual pattern of eating designed to induce weight loss. That's how it's universally understood in this context.

Being more technical does not mean being more correct.

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Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by dwc on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:39PM (#16423971)
"Universally understood" shouldn't be true for this. I've known a number of people who were on diets to gain weight for medical or self image reasons, and it's known still known as a diet.
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