LOW-CALORIE DIET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-calorie diet mean? 

• LOW-CALORIE DIET (noun)
  The noun LOW-CALORIE DIET has 1 sense:

1. a diet that is low on calories

  Familiarity information: LOW-CALORIE DIET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-CALORIE DIET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diet that is low on calories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("low-calorie diet" is a kind of...):

obesity diet; reducing diet (a diet designed to help you lose weight (especially fat))

 Context examples 

This condition can greatly reduce the patient’s quality of life, but new research out of the University of Southern California has found that a low-calorie diet may help reverse the condition.

(Fasting-Like Diets May Reverse Gut Inflammation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The first set of mice was fed on a low-calorie diet for 24 hours.

(New Appetite Control Mechanism Found in Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An intensive low-calorie diet involving a total daily intake of 700 calories (less than one cheeseburger) for 8 weeks has been associated with remission in almost nine out of ten people with recently diagnosed diabetes and in a half of people with longstanding disease.

(Type 2 diabetes remission possible with ‘achievable’ weight loss, University of Cambridge)