Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Banting

Doing Banting. Reducing superfluous fat by living on meat diet, and abstaining from beer, farinaceous food, and vegetables, according to the method adopted by William Banting, a London cabinet-maker, once a very fat man (born 1796, died 1878). The word was introduced about 1864.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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