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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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dietetics" Quotes from Famous Books



... sledging foods, one comes down to a solid basis of dietetics. But even dietetics as a science has to stand aside when actual experience speaks. Dietetics deals with proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and calories: all terms which need definition and comprehension before the value of a sledging ration can be fundamentally ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... the seal, bear, walrus, and whale in connection with Eskimo dietetics, and doubtless the stomachs of most persons would revolt at the idea of eating these animals, the taste for which, by the way, is merely a matter of early education or individual preference, for there ...
— The First Landing on Wrangel Island - With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants • Irving C. Rosse

... cook-stove, Coal-stove, Date muffins, Dates, Cream of wheat with, Graham mush with, Demi-tasse, Meaning of, Deviled, Meaning of, Dextrine, Formation of, Diet, Hot breads in the, Meaning of, Well-balanced, Dietetics, Definition of, Digestion and absorption of food, of food, Dill, Meaning of, Dinner rolls, Dish-washing machines, Double boiler, Cooking cereals in, boiler, Use of, Dough, Kneading bread, Making bread, Motions used in kneading bread, ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... as it concerns the repairing, the motor, or the nervous, activities, is divided into (1) Dietetics, (2) Gymnastics, (3) Sexual Education. In real life these activities are scarcely separable, but for the sake of exposition we must consider them apart. In the regular development of the human being, moreover, the repairing system has a relative precedence to the motor ...
— Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz

... influence is associated with the object in question. The ancient Jews, for example, in prohibiting the eating of swine's flesh, were as far as possible removed in their thought from any connection with dietetics. They were simply following the well-known savage custom that the totem of a tribe is sacred. The pig was a totem with many of the Semitic tribes, and must not, therefore, be eaten.[74] It was not an unclean animal, in the modern sense, it ...
— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen



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