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The meaning of the word "diet" in daily use has drifted a bit from the original meaning.

Diet started out being simply a description or a list of what you ate.

So whatever you ate, that was your diet, or your eating list.

But today, most people think of a diet as being a list of "special" things to eat, for a certain purpose.

If you want to lose weight, you go on a low-calorie diet - meaning a list of what and how much you should be eating if you want to lose weight.

If you're an athlete, you might be on a high carbohydrate diet to have energy enough to train hard.

And so on.

So when you hear about wild animals and diets, it's in the old meaning of the word - an eating list - and not in the current meaning of a planned eating list for a specific purpose.

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