If you've bulked up on the protein in your diet without cutting calories in other areas, you may find yourself gaining weight. In a 2012 study, researchers found that people assigned a high-protein diet gained the same amount of fat as people assigned to a low-protein, high-fat diet, when both groups overate.
Adoption: An Overview. Adoption refers to the act by which an adult formally becomes the guardian of a child and incurs the rights and responsibilities of a parent. At the conclusion of the formal process, a legal relationship between child and guardian will have formed.
As an adjective, adopted usually describes the adoptee (i.e., the one who is passive in the adoption process). Adoptive usually describes the adopter. So an adopted child is raised by his or her adoptive parents. Although this distinction is useful, itâs not always borne out in practice, and some writers use adoptive for the adoptee. This isnât a serious problem as one long-established definition of adoptive is, simply, of or having to do with adoption. But the use of adopted in place of adoptive is illogical because adopted implies that there is an adopter and an adoptee. The adoptee is always adopted by the adopter, not vice-versa.