Banting diet

Thus, the Banting diet became a very well known method during that period of the 19th century, promoted also for weight loss and diabetes control.

The "Banting diet" as it was known, flew in the face of medical thinking at the time, but it was also very successful.

Twentieth-century diets The demise of the Banting diet allowed an explosion of diets.

Like it or not, the medical profession could not ignore it. Its obvious success meant that the Banting Diet had to be explained somehow.

He is also known for espousing a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that was in essence a modification of the popular "Banting diet", a regimen endorsed by William Banting (1796-1878), an English undertaker.

We've devoured dieting bestsellers for hundreds of years – from The Art of Living Long, which has been in print for 450 years, to the Banting Diet, a precursor of Atkins that Agatha Christie featured in her novels, and 1957's Pray Your Weight Away.