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Diet vs Sirtuin - What's the difference?

diet | sirtuin |

As nouns the difference between diet and sirtuin

is that diet is (senseid)the food and beverage a person or animal consumes while sirtuin is (biochemistry) any of several enzymes that act as regulatory factors that mediate the life-extending effects of a low-calorie diet.

As a verb diet

is to regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

diet

English

(wikipedia diet)

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  • The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
  • (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  • By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
  • He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
  • (countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  • Derived terms

    * dietarian * dietary * dieter * dietetics

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  • *, I.iii.1.2:
  • they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
  • * Spenser
  • She diets him with fasting every day.
  • To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  • I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
  • (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
  • (obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.
  • * Othello
  • But partly led to diet my revenge […].

    Anagrams

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    sirtuin

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia sirtuin) (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that act as regulatory factors that mediate the life-extending effects of a low-calorie diet.