Diet originally means a way of life, the way one lives and eats. The Greek word diaita stands for the whole conduct of life. It has nothing to do with a slimming regime.
Where the word comes from
Diaita means way of life, manner of living. Physicians like Hippocrates meant by it the whole conduct of life: food, movement, sleep, measure. It was a wide, calm word for a life in order, not a program of prohibitions.
Why it is misunderstood
Today “diet” means a low-calorie regime of deprivation and bad conscience. That meaning is young. It comes from the marketing of the 20th century, the word for diet cola dates from 1963. A whole way of life became a temporary program that you hold out and then break.
What the Bible Diet means
The Bible Diet is a diaita in the old sense: a way of eating and living that grows out of the truth. No counting, no forbidding, no guilt. Just one direction: closer to the whole, as it was created, further from the factory. That takes the pressure off immediately.
Why that sets you free
A regime ends, a way of life stays. Whoever understands diet again as the conduct of life has nothing to overturn overnight and nothing to hold out. One step after another, and compulsion becomes a habit that carries you. Eat and live the way you’re built.
In one sentence
Diet originally means way of life (diaita), not a regime. The Bible Diet is a way of eating and living that grows out of the truth and stays.
Further reading
The Bible Diet: How you really eat
What this is about
Plain Words: Terms explained honestly