The South Beach Diet restricts carbohydrates - carbs, as diet dilettantes like to say. True, good carbs are allowed, but South Beach dieters must say goodbye to potatoes, fruit, bread, cereal, rice, pasta, beetroot, carrots, and sweet corn for the first two weeks.
Normatively definition, of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc. See more. Dictionary.com
Definition of reactive for English Language Learners. : 1  done in response to a problem or situation : reacting to problems when they occur instead of doing something to prevent them. 2  chemistry : tending to change into something else when mixed with another substance.