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A flexitarian diet, also called a semi-vegetarian diet,[1] is one that is centered on plant foods with limited or occasional inclusion of meat.[2][3][4][5] For example, a flexitarian might eat meat only some days each week. Flexitarian is a portmanteau of the words flexible and vegetarian, signifying its followers' less strict diet pattern when compared to vegetarian pattern diets.[1]
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There are many forms of vegetarian diet from the semi-vegetarian (consumes meat infrequently)...
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semi-vegetarian: mostly follows a vegetarian diet but eats meat, poultry and fish occasionally
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