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Definition of Light diet
1. Noun. Diet prescribed for bedridden or convalescent people; does not include fried or highly seasoned foods.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light Diet
Literary usage of Light diet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"light diet light diet consists of everything included in liquid diet, and in
addition fruits, such as grapes and oranges; porridge of granum or farina; ..."
2. Lessons in Cookery by Frances Elizabeth Stewart (1919)
"Inactive healthy persons (requiring light diet): 1. Most people in very hot weather.
Summer vacation idlers should beware of too hearty a diet. 2. ..."
3. A Complete handbook for the Hospital Corps of the U.S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1906)
"light diet includes liquids and the simpler and more digestible articles of solid
or semisolid food. Each surgeon usually has his own diet list; ..."
4. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking: For the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"Jellies made with gelatine, especially when flavored with wine, are a very valuable
form of food with which to make the transition from liquid to light diet ..."
5. The Practice and Applied Therapeutics of Osteopathy by Charles Hazzard (1901)
"In venous congestion a light diet must be followed. The patient should drink
plenty of pure water. Hot baths and hot applications over the kidneys, may, ..."
6. Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy by American Institute of Homeopathy Session (1895)
"Fruits, low diet, dry diet, beef tea, milk diet, light diet and " no meats " are
each ... Eight permit but little fluid, and seven only a light diet. ..."
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