So the other day, a reader lamented that he had put on a few lbs.

A look in the mirror said it all. A bit soft. Pants a little snug.

No bueno, he said.

So as we shared a coffee, I offered a bit of a historical perspective:

Let’s see what William Banting has to say about FAT.

FAT gets a bad rap. FAT-shaming. FAT phobia. It’s a four letter word!

But FAT is simply hydrogen and carbon molecules arranged in varying shapes and forms, and a crucial macronutrient.

So, in 1862, a British undertaker by the name of William Banting took a look at himself in the mirror.

He was 5’ 5” and weighed 202 lbs. He was 66 yrs old.

He was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Alas, he was afflicted with ‘CORPULENCE.’

Corpulence, he said, was like a parasite. It slowly kills you. And for a while, unless you were sick, you went along your merry way. Judgement clouded to your affliction. Until you could ignore it no longer.

Until you can’t walk down the stairs without support or climb the stairs without a huffin and a puffin. Or get off the toilet without support.

Banting consulted the experts. Vigorous exercise! Turkish baths! He took to rowing 2 hrs/day. Never lost more than 6 lbs. Weight fluctuated. He was low energy.

Hearing loss and skin boils led him to he finally consult an ENT physician by the name of William Harvey.

And he was advised to avoid ‘STARCH and SACCHARINE.’

In one year, August 1862-August 1863 he went from 202 to 156 lbs.

He was so grateful…that he published a primer, for FREE. To share:

It was called…

‘Letter on Corpulence’

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Banting was perhaps the first LOW CARB influencer. Banting’s experience w the low carb/ketoish intervention was transformative.

The ‘Letter on Corpulence.’

In this published pamphlet, he told his story and basically, he avoided:

Bread, sugar, potatoes and beer.

He was Atkins before there was an Atkins.

High Protein. Low carb.

He did eschew extra or added fat. No butter. Certainly no butter coffee!

Beef, fish and veggies. Mutton. No starch. Simple.

He did include some spirits, claret, cordials and a bit of fruit. But milk and milk sugar was out.

But in one years time, he was feeling like a new man. Taking the stairs with ease. He noted his constitutional afflictions abated.

So take a note from Banting. The first low-carb guru.

Exercise is great for overall health, but inefficient for weight loss.

Cut out the ‘starch and saccharine’ Protein forward.

Modern day diet culture can be overly complex, needlessly so.

So I told my reader…

“Go Banting for 30 days. And report back.”

The PrimalMed perspective…’Stay Calm and PrimalMed On!’