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Et sted skriver Nille at Banting var den første som anbefalte ketogene dietter til diabetikere

Neeeei, det har jeg da ikke sagt -og jeg har iallefall ikke uttalt meg om at det var en god diett eller ikke !!

Men den var den som i lavkarbo kretser er regnet som "den første". Og Harvey Banting omtales som "The father of the low Carbohydrate diet". Den har de senere år blomstret opp med egen side på nettet (betalingsside) og de som "eier" siden har frabedt seg at de som bruker den utveksler erfaringene sine i forum - copyright rules sier de

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ALLE lavkarbo dietter stammer egentlig fra William Banting - skrevet i 1864. Denne har senere blitt forsket på og videreutviklet av flere, bl.a. Atkins. Atkins var den første "moderne" versjonen.

Banting var ikke lege engang han stakkar.

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Banting published "Letter of Corpulence" at his own expense, to make this great new diet available to others, but he professed no medical knowledge, so the pamphlet does not contain a physiological explanation for how the diet functions. But the inquisitive mind can turn for this to his medical adviser William Harvey's 1872 publication "On Corpulence in relation to disease, with some remarks on diet".
The style of Banting's pamphlet is grandiloquent at times, but persevering with it reveals a surprising number of issues which have resonance today. These include obese people being treated with contempt and assumed to deserve their obesity because of self-indulgence and lack of willpower, a consideration of how quickly weight should be lost, how long the diet should be continued, the number and variety of officially-sponsored diets which never work, a vehement opposition to low-carbohydrate diets by sections of the public and the medical profession, and the full misery of obesity only ever being truly understood by fellow sufferers.

It might seem that the most noteworthy aspect of this booklet is being the first low-carbohydrate diet ever published, as this gives it historical significance. However, it also contains some spectacularly predictive statements, which preceded medical proof by scores of years. For instance, Banting notes that his diet only seems to attack superfluous deposits of fat, which was not proved scientifically for another 60 years. Another example is that Banting enjoins us to "avoid any starchy or saccharine matter which tends to the disease of corpulence…whether it be swallowed in a direct form or produced in the stomach by combination". Almost identical words were published a whole century later by a Director of Medical Research following a lifetime of observations. The attentive reader may also notice that Banting comments that different people show differing degrees of tolerance for the foods which promote obesity, a very current issue today.

This booklet also covers the following themes: it provides independent documentary evidence of the efficacy of the diet, it chronicles a number of medical conditions caused by obesity and later relieved by the diet, and it lists some of the prevailing medical theories and so-called remedies of Banting's day, which shows the prevalence of quackery at the time. An interesting snippet for me was learning that the height and weight charts that Insurance Companies and the Medical Profession still use today were based arbitrarily on calculation of the volume of air passing in and out of the lungs, as an approximate guide to the health of organs in the body, especially the lungs. Predictably though, the main thrust of the booklet is to set out the empirical evidence of Banting's own experience (backed by others), to describe the diet, and to issue a challenge to other corpulent people to try it themselves for a month.

The diet is what would now be described as "high protein, high fat and low carbohydrate, with no calorie restriction".

Her er noe linker:
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/iss...mBanting.shtml
http://www.femalemuscle.com/nutrition/high_protein.html
http://homodiet.netfirms.com/otherss...rs/banting.htm