Not to quibble Lisa, but any way of eating is a diet. By definition
a diet = The usual food and drink of a person or animal. It derives from the Middle English diete, from Old French, from Latin diaeta, way of living, diet, from Greek diaita, back-formation from diaitsthai, to live one's life, middle voice of diaitn, to treat. Its is recently that we define a diet as a temporary way of eating.
Maybe I'm just cranky today, but it bugs me we have to create a description to emphasise that this is a lifelong way of eating, just because people have bastardized the true definition of diet.
Have you ever watched a documentary about a certain species of animal? Sometime during that documentary it will discuss what the animal eats, which will sound something like this "the
diet of the albino michigan wombat consists of bark, grubs, and fruit". By our societies definition of the word diet, the wombat is merely trying to shed a few pounds, and will soon return to its normal choice of foods of meat, pasta, and cola.
Not sure what I was trying to accomplish in this little rant, but I feel a lot better now
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