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Banting diet

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Banting diet

A high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet for obesity, which is no longer eponymously dignified.
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Banting,

William, English carpenter, 1796-1878.
Banting diet - diet high in fats and protein and low in refined carbohydrates, successfully used by Banting in 1862.
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New research could debunk banting diet. South African Health News Service, 10 July 2014.
Banting diets) agree on one thing--that asking an esteemed panel of Prof.
This pioneering six-part Channel 4 series examines which plan works best; is it the Banting diet, first published in 1863, the "chew-chew" diet of the early 1900s or the first calorie counting Lulu diet, one of the best selling non-fiction publications of the 1920s?
He lost 50 pounds in a year on what appears to be a version of the Atkins diet, so perhaps it should be called the Banting Diet. I tried Atkins once, until just looking at a piece of meat made me feel sick.
One convert, Brian Berkman, a type 2 diabetic, said he was on the verge of undergoing bariatric surgery when he decided to try the Banting diet as a last resort--with spectacular and unexpected success.
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