Two weeks after the dentures were removed, Ms Keating is on a liquid diet and feeling "much happier".

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Mike and Matt were on a liquid diet for two weeks after surgery, and then ate only soft foods for another two weeks.

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He started out on a liquid diet, then pureed his food.

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Others will see the confinements of my diet as depressing, but for me they are delicacies that are far preferable to the too-often-required clear liquid diet.

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She has been arrested many times and taken to hospital where she has been force-fed a liquid diet through her nose in a bid to keep her alive.

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Recently released Bush administration Justice Department memos condone the use of such tactics as keeping a detainee naked and in some cases in a diaper, and putting detainees on a liquid diet.

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But there was certainly a semi-dangerous period in life where my body's entire liquid intake consisted only of Diet Coke.

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Unlike Freeport, which must bring in some of its natural gas and liquid feedstocks by ship and railcar, Ras Tanura's chemical plants will get their daily diet of some 40, 000 barrels of oil-derived naphtha and 70 million cubic feet of natural gas by (very short) pipelines.

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