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Show Notes for Podcast 29: Letter on Corpulence The First Low-Carb Diet Book by William Banting read by Dana Carpender

Welcome to the CarbSmart Podcast, where your decision to embrace low carb nutrition becomes a fun and delicious lifestyle. I’m your host, Dana Carpender, here to guide you through the ins and outs of everything low carb. This show, we have something a little different. This show. Features something I did not write myself that has not happened before.

How old is a low carb diet?

If you look at the traditional diets of various peoples, including the seal, fish, and Blubber diet of the Inuit, several North American native peoples who flourished on pemmican. And the African Messiah herding people who thrived on milk, meat, and cows blood.

Very old indeed. But how about low carb diet books?

So far as I know, the oldest in the English language at least, is Banting’s Letter on Corpulence. Having lost weight and dramatically improved his health on a low carbohydrate diet. Banting wrote and self-published the book back in the Mid-Victorian era, and he distributed it for free.

By the third printing, he had distributed 63,000 copies and banting have become synonymous with dieting. So here it is, Banting’s Letter on Corpulence.

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Episode 29 Recipe:

I tried to come up with a recipe that might have been on Banting’s table, but English cooking being so simple – broiled or roasted meats, sauteed or simmered fish and the like, especially in the Victorian era – it took me awhile! But hey, you get two recipes instead of just one. T-Bone With Anchovy Butter and Walnuts, and the recipe for Anchovy Butter itself. I don’t know if a dish of this sort graced William Banting’s table, but all the ingredients were known and available. Click on the link below or go to CarbSmart.com/podcast29recipe and enjoy!

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