basic diet

Moreover, a more basic diet reduced the need for protein.

Cut out all recreation, and worked on the near-starvation basic diet.

Then they move out on the ice for the ringed seals that are their basic diet.

He divided them into six pairs, giving each pair different supplements to their basic diet for two weeks.

The basic diet that the Government puts out has never changed, but people are looking for a magic bullet."

All groups were fed the same basic diet.

Cassava is another major staple food in the developing world, providing a basic diet for around 500 million people.

There are ten basic diets and 90 variations.

Their basic diet consists of arthropods, vertebrates, seeds, and fruit.

Modern faith suffers from a severe shortage of understanding in its basic diet, a deficiency which can be detected at many points.

A balanced but basic diet can keep the average person healthy and I'm always wary of those advocating "health promoting" diets.

His experiment started with a basic diet of bread and water with a little sugar for thirty-one days.

Nan, the flat local bread, and richly sugared tea are the ordinary Afghan's basic diet.

However, the acceptance of the wheat tortilla has increased so rapidly, it now is also part of the basic diet in northern Mexico.

I added some shiners, a forage fish that would supplement the trout's basic diet of insects and small amphibians.

The availability of cheap and plentiful ice meant more than cool drinks in the summer; it changed New Yorkers' basic diet.

- Strictest economy was necessary, and lentils, at about one halfpenny a meal, appear to have been the basic diet."

In the heart of winter, the grouse's basic diet is tree buds and twigs, primarily those of the poplar family.

"It's a basic diet," said Converse cynically.

Like the rest of Mesoamerica, the basic diet has been based on corn and Chiapas cooking retains strong indigenous influence.

'Simple food, of course, but ye canna change a man's basic diet because he's been pumped full of antibiotics.'

When she recognized she was overweight, she asked for a basic diet with the required number of daily calories, stuck to it, and lost 35 pounds.

(Oatmeal being a staple foodstuff, that in the past commonly formed part of the basic diet in Scotland.)

His basic diet is a potpourri of Social Democratic standbys - restructuring the economy, penalizing polluters, abortion, child care, and banning nuclear power.

The seed mixture in the UK known as British Finch & Mule is their basic diet.