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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



... conceal his 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] while the English in turn jibed at the Italians for being "like Nebuchadnezzar,—always ...
— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard


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