You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In the late 1800s, William Banting, a wealthy Londoner, knew that many people were battling the same ...

While low-carb diets are all the rage today, they can be traced back to one man who is said to have birthed the stripped back way of eating. William Banting, who was a funeral director living in ...

“Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity.” So started William Banting’s “Letter on Corpulence,” likely the first diet ...

The language and concepts used to describe the physical body are inherently shaped by cultural forces. It is difficult to say whether the audience of some three hundred listeners sitting before ...

The low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) dietary regime poses little difficulty for restaurants, unless starch is the key dish, which makes the diet bad news for bakeries, pizza palaces, sushi bars and burger ...