"dietary measures" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to actions taken to improve one's diet or eating habits. Example: The government is implementing dietary measures to combat the rising rates of obesity in the country.
Certain dietary measures have also been shown to be valuable.
Captive flamingos gradually lose their rich pigmentation unless appropriate dietary measures are taken.
Dr. Peter P. Toth of the University of Illinois School of Medicine at Peoria says certain dietary measures also help.
The newer drug therapies decrease gastric acidity much more than antacids and other dietary measures do.
Dietary measures, exercise and other lipid-lowering drugs, especially statins, fibrates and ezetimibe, are without effect.
Establishment of the rumen microbiome can be affected by both early-life dietary measures and rumen microbial inoculation.
If diarrhea does not respond to dietary measures, diphenoxylate or loperamide may slow the movement of the intestinal contents, thereby increasing the potential for the reabsorption of water.
Other dietary measures are directed toward achieving an ideal body weight because obesity contributes to hypertension and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Dietary measures are particularly appropriate for initiating weight losses in patients with type 2 diabetes, who are frequently overweight or obese.
Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who as South Africa's health minister drew international censure for questioning the causal connection between H.I.V. and AIDS and for promoting dietary measures rather than drugs to treat AIDS, a policy that was held responsible for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths, died Wednesday in Johannesburg.
The neonatal diagnosis of an affected sib permits the institution of appropriate dietary measures to prevent potentially fatal episodes of illness.
