banting: "doing banting", reducing superfluous fat by living on meat diet and abstaining from farinaceous food and vegetables, according to the method adopted by William Banting [1796-1878], a London cabinet-maker, once a very fat man. The word was introduced about 1864.
(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)
Note: Geez, sounds like the Atkins Diet to me!
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