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Letter On Corpulence Addressed to the Public by William Banting


In what's billed as the "world's first diet book," William Banting offered his strategy for losing weight. He ate four meals a day, didn't exercise much, drank alcohol, and swore off only a few foods. And, what's more, anyone familiar with current low-carb diets will find similar advice here -- advice given in 1864. William Banting was a carpenter in Victorian London whose weight spiraled out of control. His eyesight and hearing failed, he had weak knees, and he suffered an umbilical rupture, health problems he attributed to his weight. He consulted doctors but nothing helped. Then Banting discovered this diet and got results within just a few days. He ate lots of meat, a few vegetables, shunned some foods that he's previously overindulged in, and drank alcohol with lunch and dinner. He lost fifty pounds, and his health improved. He published this pamphlet detailing his diet and distributed the copies for free. By its third printing it had sold 63,000 copies, and the term "Banting" became synonymous with "dieting" in England.


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  • A pioneer way ahead of his time. It’s a wonder that we call our WOE a ketogenic diet and not a Banting diet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

  • It's really neat to find all these keto carnivore diet resources from the 1800's. At the same time, obesity is a modern-day pandemic. We've probably seen that footage of NY city in the 30's and n

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    Mr. Banting was quite thorough with that letter.  It is impressive. He even features a weight to height chart on page 36 which is surprisingly close to what I see on much more recent charts.

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It's really neat to find all these keto carnivore diet resources from the 1800's.

At the same time, obesity is a modern-day pandemic. We've probably seen that footage of NY city in the 30's and nobody is overweight. Being obese in the 1800's then must have really been tough on someone. You would have really stood out, whereas today it's the norm and nobody seems to care.

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