Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight.

Dieting is often used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are overweight or obese.

* Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake

Dieting alone is ineffective in most obese adults-and even obese adults who successfully lose weight through dieting, often put weight back on afterwards.

Dieting was ineffective ; she lost some weight only to regain it later.

Antipsychotics are not recommended for benzodiazepine withdrawal ( or other CNS depressant withdrawal states ) especially clozapine, olanzapine or low potency phenothiazines e. g. chlorpromazine as they lower the seizure threshold and can worsen withdrawal effects ; if used extreme caution is required.

By extension, it has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards rival groups.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

Incest between adults and those under the age of consent is considered a form of child sexual abuse that has been shown to be one of the most extreme forms of childhood abuse, often resulting in serious and long-term psychological trauma, especially in the case of parental incest.

An option, especially if and when wavelengths continue to decrease to extreme UV or X-ray, is the free-electron laser ( or one might say xaser for an X-ray device ).

In secular music, especially in the madrigal, there was a trend towards complexity and even extreme chromaticism ( as exemplified in madrigals of Luzzaschi, Marenzio, and Gesualdo ).

Some very extreme tendencies of a minority of adherents to Ultramontanism however, especially those attributing to the Roman Pontiff, even in his private opinions, of absolute infallibility even in matters beyond faith and morals, and impeccability, survived and were eagerly used by opponents of the Catholic Church and papacy before the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ) for use in their propaganda.

Some software, especially games for the MSX, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and other Z80 based computers, took Z80 assembly optimization to rather extreme levels, employing the duplicated registers among other things.

* Several typhoons and hurricanes resulted in extreme destruction in this decade, especially in 2005 ( the most active in recorded history ) with Hurricane Katrina nearly destroying New Orleans, followed by Hurricane Rita, which wreaked destruction along the U. S. Gulf Coast.

Considered by some economists to be a rare and extreme form of recession, a depression is characterized by its length ; by abnormally large increases in unemployment ; falls in the availability of credit, often due to some kind of banking or financial crisis ; shrinking output as buyers dry up and suppliers cut back on production and investment ; large number of bankruptcies including sovereign debt defaults ; significantly reduced amounts of trade and commerce, especially international ; as well as highly volatile relative currency value fluctuations, most often due to devaluations.

In computational chemistry, especially in QSAR studies, ovality refers to, a measure of how the shape of a molecule approaches a sphere ( at one extreme ) or a cigar shape ( at the other ).

Excessive urination and extreme thirst ( especially for cold water and sometimes ice or ice water ) are typical for DI.

Differentiating ecological selection from sexual is useful especially in such extreme cases ; Above examples demonstrate exceptions rather than a typical selection in the wild.

He, like Danny, has an extreme dislike of Dennis the Menace especially due to his menacing of him during his 50th birthday.

Despite the presence of traffic lights and traffic policemen, the U. S. Embassy advises drivers to exercise extreme caution, especially at intersections.

The extreme heat generated in these systems is easily visible during night racing, especially at shorter tracks.

What makes it especially stand out is the content: a set of articles by eminent scholars discussing a fictional composer Otto Jägermeier — a joke carried to a high extreme.

This stance seems extreme, especially in light of the fact that Creon elsewhere advocates obedience to the state above all else.

Those who practice the more permissive philosophy of risk-aware consensual kink may abandon the use of safewords, especially those that practice forms of edgeplay or extreme forms of dominance and submission.

A form of glasses with extreme magnification to improve the distance vision of those with severe eyesight impairment, especially people with albinism, are known as bioptics or a bioptic telescope.

Mutations in the gene coding for the NADPH oxidase cause an immunodeficiency syndrome called chronic granulomatous disease, characterized by extreme susceptibility to infection, especially catalase positive organisms.

Typically, winters are cool and wet in the extreme south areas and Snow can fall and settle to sea level in winter, especially in the hills and plains of South Otago.

As the highest European mountain west of Russia, Mont Blanc holds a special allure for mountain climbers, and Mark Twight described the town as " the death-sport capital of the world " because it is a base for almost all types of outdoor activity, especially their more extreme variants, such as ice climbing, rock climbing, extreme skiing, paragliding, rafting, and canyoning.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

In France, an " Antibiotics are not automatic " government campaign started in 2002 and led to a marked reduction of unnecessary antibacterial prescriptions, especially in children.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Civil wars, decreasing investments in maintenance and acquisition of new scrolls and generally declining interest in non-religious pursuits likely contributed to a reduction in the body of material available in the Library, especially in the fourth century.

" Everything objective, extended, active, and hence everything material, is regarded by materialism as so solid a basis for its explanations that a reduction to this ( especially if it should ultimately result in thrust and counter-thrust ) can leave nothing to be desired.

Mediation can also be seen as a form of harm reduction or de-escalation, especially in its large-scale application in peace and similar negotiations, or the bottom-up way it is performed in the peace movement where it is often called mindful mediation.

The construction of beltways, and thus the reduction of the inflow of vehicles into the city, has helped significantly, but still the existence of only one downtown bridge causes serious transportation difficulties, especially traffic jams.

" Note that the presence of large street trees especially indicated a reduction in crime, as compare to newer, smaller trees.

" From the industrial perspective, important reactions are condensations, e. g. to prepare plasticizers and polyols, and reduction to produce alcohols, especially " oxo-alcohols.

Ecological stresses, especially near habitat margins, can also cause a breakdown of mate recognition as well as a reduction of male function ( pollen quantity and quality ) in one parent species.

Lossy methods are especially suitable for natural images such as photographs in applications where minor ( sometimes imperceptible ) loss of fidelity is acceptable to achieve a substantial reduction in bit rate.

This reduction in China's agricultural capability ( as in other world regions ) is largely due to the world water crisis and especially due to mining groundwater beyond sustainable yield, which has been happening in China since the mid-20th century.

The study found a significant reduction in VTE especially in women who had a history of thrombtic events or a genetic predispostion.

The main goals of treatment in angina pectoris are relief of symptoms, slowing progression of the disease, and reduction of future events, especially heart attacks and, of course, death.

One common method, especially on higher-end processors with floating-point units, is to combine a polynomial or rational approximation ( such as Chebyshev approximation, best uniform approximation, and Padé approximation, and typically for higher or variable precisions, Taylor and Laurent series ) with range reduction and a table lookup — they first look up the closest angle in a small table, and then use the polynomial to compute the correction.

Nor can a high degree of praise be denied to his financial policy, especially his plans for the reduction of the national debt and the simplification and consolidation of its different branches.

Southern France, especially the port cities of Marseille, Bordeaux and La Rochelle, suffered from the reduction in trade.

Though he brought him into his cabinet in 1921 in part at the urging of Progressive leader Thomas Crerar, King found Stewart to be an inadequate protector of western interests — especially in his advocacy of tariff reduction, which King found lacklustre — and did not trust his political advice on the west.

Chemical methods of foam control are not always desired with respect to the problems ( i. e., contamination, reduction of mass transfer ) they may cause especially in food and pharmaceutical industries, where the product quality is of great importance.

Following a major reduction in the airline's scheduled activities at Tempelhof as a result of co-ordinating its flight times with British Airways ( rather than operating competitive schedules ), this helped increase utilisation of the 727s based at that airport, especially on weekends.

Such compensatory reduction in mortality suggests that heat affects especially those so ill that they " would have died in the short term anyway ".

Income tax systems generally allow a tax deduction, i. e., a reduction of the income subject to tax, for various items, especially expenses incurred to produce income.

Habitat conservation is a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range.

Lerista is a diverse (~ 80 species ) genus of skink endemic to Australia which is especially notable for the variation in the amount of limb reduction ( Greer 1990, 1991 ).