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• There are a few telltale signs that your dog may need to be put on a diet.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
• Roscoe was on a diet of soft foods (only three teeth left).
  — Noelle Mateer, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• They’ve been put on a diet of fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, cooked meat and raw fish.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• Disney is going on a diet — but Hulu is still on the menu.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
• Disney is going on a diet — but Hulu is still on the menu.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
• Weight loss may not be as simple as going on a diet or spending more time at the gym.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Your feline friend cannot be maintained on a diet of only dog food, though.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
• Native to Brazil, marmosets subsist on a diet of insects and the gum or sap from trees, experts say.
  — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Semi-wild black pigs grow fat on a diet of acorns dropped by the forests of cork oaks across the southern Alentejo region.
  — Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• Some of Boback’s boas had been caught in the wild, but others had been reared in captivity and had always lived on a diet of dead rats.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2012
• She and her co-workers were forced to live in a cramped apartment for nearly three months, subsisting on a diet of rice and soy sauce.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• These birds typically weigh between 13 and 26 pounds and live on a diet of fish, squid and crustaceans.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2022
• In addition, long naps reduce the body's ability to lose fat on a diet, Garaulet has shown.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• The charging case has also been on a diet and is now 40% smaller than its predecessor.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• That might explain why some people struggle to lose weight through lifestyle changes, or why others regain weight lost on a diet.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Having been on a diet and developed a rigid, black-and-white mindset around eating (this food is bad, this food is bad) can also be a risk factor.
  — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• Or did the obese dictator of the world’s most isolated country finally decide to go on a diet?
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• Think of it as going on a diet and replacing bad habits with healthier ones to give our weary eyes some much needed downtime from tech.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Our favorite teenage cannibals will have to go on a diet after Friday.
  — Vulture, 26 May 2023
• Not for long, of course, and the final tag reveals Doug is in Amsterdam, happily living on a diet of Stroopwafels.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• Much like going on a diet, the most difficult work happens in the beginning, and the best motivation to keep going is to see results.
  — Garry Wiseman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Mike Pompeo has lost 90 pounds on a diet and exercise regimen.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
• The researchers have found that these superworms can survive on a diet of nothing but polystyrene, which is used in a vast array of products, ranging from cups to packing peanuts.
  — Fionna Samuels, Scientific American, 9 June 2022
• The recent increase in SNAP benefits — which was based partly on a diet that includes more fish, and red and orange vegetables — was designed with that in mind.
  — jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• DeLong’s team had found an organism that could not only survive but flourish on a diet of nothing but viruses.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Just really sticking on that, really sticking on a diet, and that just applies to everything else in this life.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2022
• Policy, however, is a different beast — one best fed on a diet of courage and clarity.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• Your biggest fibers, these produce the most force and operate on a diet of almost all anaerobic energy.
  — Outside Online, 17 July 2020
• Dogs are natural meat eaters, and puppies’ nutrient needs are most easily met on a diet that contains plenty of meat.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the years before the novel opens, Kettle has lost his wife and two adult children to an escalating sequence of tragedies and now subsists on a diet of fantasy and nostalgia.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024