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themusecalliope ([personal profile] themusecalliope) wrote2011-10-25 07:41 pm
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Tales from the Bulletin Board: Banting

...And here's another post about a piece of paper I saved...

From the Cork Board:

From the Forgotten English day by day calendar - Tuesday, March 16 (year?)

Banting: doing banting, reducing superfluous fat by living on [a] meat diet, and abstaining from beer, farinaceous food, and vegetables, according to the method adopted by William Banting....The word was introduced about 1864.
- Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898

Why I saved it:

Uh...sound familiar? Everything old is new again, isn't it Mr. Atkins? *ahem*