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Diet Records

Diet records, also called food diaries, are self-report tools recording all foods and drinks consumed over specified days in real time, weighed or estimated, used in nutrition research and known for under-reporting and reactivity.

Diet Therapy

Diet therapy: adjusting food intake quantity and quality to improve health, indexed as MeSH D004035 and delivered as medical nutrition therapy by registered dietitian nutritionists for diabetes, obesity, hypertension, kidney disease, and IBD.

Sep 29, 2026

Dietary diversity score

A dietary diversity score (DDS) counts the number of food groups a person or household ate over 24 hours, used as a simple proxy for diet quality.

Dietary fiber

Dietary fiber, also called bulk or roughage, is the nondigestible carbohydrate and lignin in plant foods. Key facts: FDA 2016 definition, 14 g per 1,000 kcal recommendation, soluble versus insoluble types, lower all-cause and CVD mortality.

Dietary iron overload disease

Dietary iron overload disease (African iron overload, Bantu siderosis): sub-Saharan iron overload from iron-rich home-brewed beer acting with a non-HFE genetic factor, causing hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma risk.

Dietary Reference Intake

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are NASEM nutrient reference values (RDA, AI, EAR, UL, CDRR, AMDR) for healthy people in the US and Canada, jointly funded since the mid-1990s and used for labeling, guidelines, and assessment.

Dietary supplement

Dietary supplement: product taken by mouth containing dietary ingredients (vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, probiotics), regulated as food under DSHEA 1994; no FDA premarket approval, 57.6% of US adults use them.

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994

DSHEA (Public Law 103-417, October 25, 1994) is the US law defining dietary supplements as a food category under FDA oversight, with no premarket approval, structure/function claims with a disclaimer, and new dietary ingredient notification.

Dieter Arend

Dieter Arend (Dietrich Kurt Julius Arend, 1914-1987), German rowing coxswain of Ruderklub am Wannsee; won Olympic gold in the men's coxed pair at Berlin 1936 with Adamski and Gustmann, and German titles in 1936, 1943, and 1944.

Dieter Baumann

Dieter Baumann, German long-distance runner born 1965 in Blaustein; 1992 Olympic 5000 m champion, 1988 silver, 1994 European champion; German records at 3000 m and 10,000 m; 1999 nandrolone case; retired 2003.

Dieter Bimberg

Dieter Bimberg is a German physicist known for the quantum dot laser and quantum-dot nanophotonics, who held the applied solid state physics chair at TU Berlin.

Dieter Bohlen

Dieter Bohlen (born 1954, Berne or Oldenburg, Germany) is a German pop composer, producer, and singer behind Modern Talking with Thomas Anders and Blue System, and longtime head juror of Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent.

Dieter Braun

Dieter Braun, born 1970, is a German biophysicist who has been Professor of Systems Biophysics at LMU Munich since 2007, known for thermophoresis and laboratory models of molecular evolution at the origin of life.

Dieter Brummer

Dieter Kirk Brummer (1976–2021), Australian actor, played Shane Parrish on Home and Away (1992–1996), winning Logies in 1995 and 1996; later Trevor Haken in Underbelly and Troy Miller in Neighbours; died in Glenhaven, Sydney, aged 45.

Dieter Cremer

Dieter Cremer (1944–2017) was a German theoretical and computational chemist known for the Unified Reaction Valley Approach, local vibrational modes, and NESC relativistic methods, and a professor at SMU in Dallas.

Dieter Dengler

Dieter Dengler (1938–2001) was a German-born US Navy pilot shot down over Laos in 1966 who escaped after five months as a prisoner and received the Navy Cross.

Dieter Egli

Dieter Egli, also known as Dietrich M. Egli, is a Swiss-born molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for research on genome stability and gene editing in human embryos.

Dieter Enders

Dieter Enders (1946–2019) was a German organic chemist who led the Institute of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen and created the SAMP/RAMP chiral auxiliaries known as Enders reagent.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf (born 1940) is a German-born apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who served in the First Presidency from 2008 to 2018 after a Lufthansa career.

Dieter Freise

Dieter Freise (1945-2018), German field hockey defender and dentist from HC Heidelberg; won gold with West Germany at the 1972 Munich Olympics, beating Pakistan 1-0 in the final, and earned 86 caps.

Sep 20, 2026

Dieter Gallwitz

Dieter Gallwitz is a German molecular biologist who discovered the yeast Ypt/Rab-GTPases, key regulators of vesicle trafficking, and directed a Max Planck Institute department in Göttingen.

Oct 20, 2026

Dieter Grahn

Dieter Grahn (born 1944, Sobótka/Zobten) is a German rower and coach; East German coxless four Olympic champion 1968 and 1972, world champion 1966 and 1970, later Bundestrainer of the German men's eight.