A History Of Diets - Chronology of Dieting - The Year 1862
'Banting' this was the term coined by the first ever recorded diet in the British Medical Journal, when one William Banting visited his physician, weighing in at 200lb, to be told that he needed to lose weight in a hurry for the betterment of his health! His physician had recently heard the lectures on diabetes by an eminent French physician, 'Claude Bernard', who prescribed a high meat and dairy diet, to lower the presence of sugars in the urine, and help regulate the release of insulin from the pancreas.
William Banting proceeded with this high protein and fat, low carbohydrate type of diet and lost over 50lbs by 1864, and pronounced that he had 'not felt better in health in the last 26 years!' This style of dietary restriction became known as 'Banting' and was reviewed in peer journals throughout Britain, including the Lancet, as well as the BMJ
'Banting' this was the term coined by the first ever recorded diet in the British Medical Journal, when one William Banting visited his physician, weighing in at 200lb, to be told that he needed to lose weight in a hurry for the betterment of his health! His physician had recently heard the lectures on diabetes by an eminent French physician, 'Claude Bernard', who prescribed a high meat and dairy diet, to lower the presence of sugars in the urine, and help regulate the release of insulin from the pancreas.
William Banting proceeded with this high protein and fat, low carbohydrate type of diet and lost over 50lbs by 1864, and pronounced that he had 'not felt better in health in the last 26 years!' This style of dietary restriction became known as 'Banting' and was reviewed in peer journals throughout Britain, including the Lancet, as well as the BMJ
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