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the original low-carb diet, named after a chubby undertaker who buried the pounds instead.
means a weight-loss method built on cutting sugar, starch, and carbs while eating meat, fish, and veg freely.
from named after william banting, a 19th-century london undertaker who at 202 pounds and 5'5" couldn't tie his own shoes, tried everything, then lost 46 pounds on a doctor's low-carb regimen and published a bestselling pamphlet about it in 1863.
the pamphlet'letter on corpulence' sold thousands, was self-funded
linguistic legacy'to bang' means to diet in dutch, swedish
his doctorwilliam harvey, an ear surgeon, not a nutritionist
modern echobasically atkins and keto, a century early
for instance
william banting — lost 46 lbs in 1862 following harvey's meat-heavy plan
tim noakes banting — south african scientist revived the term in his 2014 diet book
letter on corpulence — 1863 pamphlet, one of the first diet bestsellers ever