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Dietetics   Listen
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Dietetics  n.  That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. "To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes."





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... Brinton, Physician to St. Thomas', in his great work on Dietetics, says: "Careful observation leaves little doubt that a moderate dose of beer or wine would, in most cases, at once diminish the maximum weight which a healthy person could lift. Mental acuteness, accuracy of perception and delicacy of the senses are all so far ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur
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... literature, philosophy, and medicine, one hundred and eighteen of which have survived. In medicine he wrote on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, pathology, therapeutics, materia medica, surgery, hygiene, and dietetics. He was the first to use the pulse as a means ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
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Words linked to "Dietetics" :   macrobiotics, life science


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