The Origin Of Today's Low Carb Diets
The origins of today's low-carb diets can be traced Zotrim Review back to a Mr. William Banting. Mr Banting lived in London, England during the mid 19th century. He was a severely overweight man who had searched unsuccessfully for solutions to his innumerable health-related disorder. Back then, doctors believed weight-gain to be a side effect of ageing - and since Banting was retired, that was it! He tried eating less but still gained weight and his varied health problems grew worse. He could not understand how the small amounts of food he did allow himself to eat hadn't fixed his weight issue:
"Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired, so that my corpulence and subsequent obesity were not through neglect of necessary bodily activity, nor from excessive eating, drinking, or self indulgence of any kind, except that I partook of the simple aliments of bread, milk, butter, beer, sugar, and potatoes more freely than my age required..."
Active Americans today may recognize Banting's " unhealthy" diet "My former dietary table was bread and milk for breakfast, or a pint of tea with plenty of milk, sugar, and buttered toast; meat, beer, much bread (of which I was always very fond) and pastry for dinner, the meal of tea similar to that of breakfast, and generally a fruit tart or bread and milk for supper. I had little comfort and far less sound sleep."
