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

The efficiency of digestion is largely dependent on the type of food being eaten, while efficiency of utilization is affected by a variety of factors, including age, gender, body weight, hormone levels, and many more.

A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that dieters who kept a daily food diary ( or diet journal ), lost twice as much weight as those who did not keep a food log, suggesting that if you write your food down, you wouldn't eat as many calories.

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

The most common presenting symptoms are: rapid weight loss, tachycardia ( rapid heart rate ), vomiting, diarrhea, increased consumption of fluids ( polydipsia ) and food, and increased urine production ( polyuria ).

After eating up to 80 percent of its body weight in one meal, it drags itself to a sunny location to speed digestion, as the food could rot and poison the dragon if left undigested for too long.

Eating disorders involve disproportionate concern in matters of food and weight.

Rice accounts for 97 % of total food grain production by weight.

* Stage V: Thirty-six to seventy-two hours after last dose: Increase in the above, fetal position, vomiting, free and frequent liquid diarrhea, which sometimes can accelerate the time of passage of food from mouth to out of system to an hour or less, involuntary ejaculation, which is often painful, saturation of bedding materials with bodily fluids, weight loss of two to five kilos per 24 hours, increased white cell count and other blood changes.

Because they tend to have strong flavors and are used in small quantities, spices tend to add few calories to food, even though many spices, especially those made from seeds, contain high portions of fat, protein, and carbohydrate by weight.

This involves complete withdrawal of food ( and sometimes water ) for 7 – 14 days or sufficiently long to cause a body weight loss of 25 to 35 %, or up to 28 days under experimental conditions which presumably reflect farming practice.

In most circumstances, matching the weight ( alcohol level and body ) of the wine to the heaviness of the food is an important consideration.

The abdomen is specialized for food digestion and egg development ; the abdomen of a mosquito can hold three times its own weight in blood.

A relatively high percentage of stigmatics also exhibit Inedia, living with minimal ( or no ) food or water for long periods of time, except for the Holy Eucharist, and some exhibit loss of weight.

In essence, it says that larger animals need to eat less food, per unit weight, than smaller animals.

The hallmark symptoms of cystic fibrosis are salty tasting skin, poor growth and poor weight gain despite a normal food intake, accumulation of thick, sticky mucus, frequent chest infections, and coughing or shortness of breath.

GH supports linear growth and increased muscle mass, and may lessen food preoccupation and weight gain.

GH supports linear growth and increased muscle mass, and may lessen food preoccupation and weight gain.

If diet, exercise and medication are not effective, a gastric balloon may assist with weight loss, or surgery may be performed to reduce stomach volume and / or bowel length, leading to earlier satiation and reduced ability to absorb nutrients from food.

* To assist in weight loss – some people choose to limit their food energy intake by replacing high-energy sugar or corn syrup with other sweeteners having little or no food energy.

Sea lions consume large quantities of food at a time and are known to eat about 5 – 8 % of their body weight ( about ) at a single feeding.

These birds feed mainly on vegetation — buds, catkins, leaves, and twigs — which typically accounts for over 95 percent of adults ' food by weight.

Indeed, a lighter weight works much better because a greater, more extensive split can be performed.

So each reading can be given a weight and each reading a score by adding up these weights.

Its light weight and compact flat design make it easy to retrieve and relatively easy to store ; some anchor rollers and hawsepipes can accommodate a fluke-style anchor.

The holding power of this anchor is at best about twice its weight until it becomes buried, when it can be as much as ten times its weight.

Its holding power is defined by its weight underwater ( i. e. taking its buoyancy into account ) regardless of the type of seabed, although suction can increase this if it becomes buried.

Weight for weight, screw anchors have a higher holding than other permanent designs, and so can be cheap and relatively easily installed, although may not be ideal in extremely soft mud.

If the weight is suspended off the seabed it acts as a spring or shock absorber to dampen the sudden actions that are normally transmitted to the anchor and can cause it to dislodge and drag.

Whilst heavier armour provides better protection, it makes vehicles less mobile ( for a given engine power ), limits its air-transportability, increases cost, uses more fuel and may limit the places it can go-for example, many bridges may be unable to support the weight of a main battle tank.

Some high performance permanent PSAs exhibit high adhesion values and can support kilograms of weight per square centimeter of contact area, even at elevated temperature.

They have low adhesion and generally can not support much weight.

The well-documented metabolic side effects associated with weight gain include diabetes, which can be life-threatening.

Any given bookmaker will weight their odds so that no one customer can cover all outcomes at a profit against their books.

A more refined measure for this exercise is to weigh the completed bridge rather than measure against a fixed quantity of materials provided and determine the multiple of this weight that the bridge can carry, a test that emphasizes economy of materials and efficient glue joints ( see balsa wood bridge ).

The data, transmitted via Bluetooth, can help individuals to lose weight and achieve optimal physical activity.

In terms of the ratio of cargo weight a bicycle can carry to total weight, it is also an efficient means of cargo transportation.

Additional to such natural biochemical stimuli, the breasts can become enlarged consequent to an adverse side effect of combined oral contraceptive pills ; and the size of the breasts can also increase and decrease in response to the body weight fluctuations of the woman.

Furthermore, in the case of the obese woman, a breast lift ( mastopexy ) procedure, with or without a breast volume reduction, can be part of an upper-body lift and contouring for the woman who has undergone massive body weight loss.

A Btu can be approximated as the heat produced by burning a single wooden match or as the amount of energy it would take to lift a one-pound weight to a height of.

The price of a new bicycle can range from US $ 50 to more than US $ 20, 000 ( the highest priced bike in the world is the custom Madone by Damien Hirst, sold at $ 500, 000 USD ), depending on quality, type and weight ( the most exotic road bicycles can weigh as little as 3. 2 kg ( 7 lb )).

Overuse injuries, including chronic nerve damage at weight bearing locations, can occur as a result of repeatedly riding a bicycle for extended periods of time.

It can be then seen that the simple molecular orbital approach gives too much weight to the ionic structures, while the simple valence bond approach gives too little.