The phrase "diet away" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the action of losing weight by following a restrictive diet. For example, "I'm trying to diet away these extra few pounds I put on during the holidays."
Mr. Accardo, with Lee Luvisi, piano, and Leslie Parnas, cello, gave us Brahms that was all lean muscle - the Romantic cushioning completely dieted away.
He buys a piece of land and the decrepit trailer that goes with it and battles loneliness and hunger while walking, biking and dieting away a hundred pounds.
And it means a shift in diets away from meat and dairy products, which are inefficient to produce, and toward plants.
So yes, doubling supply is one option to the impending food shortage, but another option would be a global focus on shifting diets away from the vast inefficiencies of animal consumption to the healthier and more sustainable consumption of crops.
To address the problem, the info-glutted can go on info-diets, away from TV, email and websurfing; the shopping-addicted can go on credit-diets; the obese can go on, um, diets (though not fancy "detox" régimes, which the author shows are pointless).
The prolific food writer and columnist for the New York Times is known for the book "How to Cook Everything". But it's Bittman's "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" (2007) and "Food Matters" (2008) that make his case for shifting our diets away from meat and processed foods to mostly plant-based foods.
My fat needs to be siphoned, burned, starved off, dieted away, thrown up, exercised into absentia, or downright scared out with diet pills that could make me turn all Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on you.
Kelly Brownell, an expert on obesity and the dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and who was not involved with the book, agreed that there is "a lot of biological pressure to regain weight" that has been dieted away.
It merely steals the attention of the dieter away from the larger offerings of the bigger weight loss services, engaging the consumer more often, for more minutes per day, at significantly lower cost -- free, in this case.
Gradually, though, the bears shifted to a more natural diet, moved away from the roads, and ultimately flourished.
