- BANTING SYSTEM
- a dietary for keeping down fat, recommended by a Mr. Banting, a London merchant, in a "Letter on Corpulence" in 1863; he recommended lean meat, and the avoidance of sugar and starchy foods.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BANTING SYSTEM
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