It is nearly impossible to ingest sufficient vitamin D in a typical diet, and it is nearly absent from breast milk.

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They looked at whether deaths from heart disease, stroke and 10 cancers linked with poor diet could be prevented in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, if everyone switched to the typical English diet.

BBC: English-style diet 'could save 4,000' in rest of UK

Even compared to a typical Mediterranean diet, Ikarians eat a lot of fish and vegetables, and relatively low levels of meat.

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These snacks were followed by a multi-course, multi-hour, sit-down dinner of many typical dishes of the Cretan diet and some pretty good Cretan wine.

NPR: Crete: Ancient Diet with Modern Message

Half the time patients in Sanofi's trials stopped taking the pills--typical for a weight-loss trial, which often entails a restrictive diet.

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Malnutrition is particularly acute in Haiti, where the average Haitian diet contains just 1, 640 calories, 460 calories short of the typical 2, 100 daily requirement, the agency said.

CNN: U.N. food agency seeks more aid for Haiti