Diet - Simple English Wikipedia

# Diet

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Diet is a word people use when they talk about eating food. Diets are about eating the right quantity and type of food at the right time. When people talk about a diet, they are usually referring to a special kind of diet. People can change their diets to gain or lose weight, to get more vitamins, to avoid a food that makes them sick, or for other reasons.

When the diet is not right, people can gain or lose weight. They may become overweight or underweight. To get back to their normal weight, they need to change their diet. This may be very hard to do.

Some people have diseases where they cannot eat certain foods without becoming very sick. They need to change their diet to avoid these foods. A food allergy is a condition in which a specific food makes someone sick. PKU is a disease in which a person cannot digest certain foods properly.

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