Low carb before Atkins???

How many are old enough to remember Dr. Stillman and his water diet?

Me! I did stllman's diet in college. it was great. I don't remember seeing
him on Johnny Carson though. boy do I miss johnny. latenight tv has never been
the same since he retired.

I love finding the old low carb diet books at garage sales. They are always
fun to go through.

susan

Somewhere on the net (forgive me if anyone has posted this, there's
about a 6 hour delay until my messages show up) a lo carb website
posted the contents of a lo-carb diet panthlet from the 1700s (Its a
fascinating read... does anyone have the link ?) - - Dr. Atkins never
claimed to invent lo carb dieting of course... in fact he wrote and
said in interviews that he got it from the American Medical
Association (please correct me if I'm a bit off on this)- - it is what
they were reccomending at the time. I guess for years it was an age
old adage that if you want to lose weight cut back on the bread and
potatoes... Obvoiusly, Dr. Atkins developed and sytemized the
diet... but he never claimed to be the creator of the lo-carb diet.

Ed

"Eddie" wrote in message
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Somewhere on the net (forgive me if anyone has posted this, there's
about a 6 hour delay until my messages show up) a lo carb website
posted the contents of a lo-carb diet panthlet from the 1700s (Its a
fascinating read... does anyone have the link ?)

Don't know about the 1700s, but you should google for "William Harvey" and
"William Banting". Banting - a society undertaker in the mid- to
late-nineteenth century - consulted Dr. Harvey about his weight, took his
advice and lost about 50lb in a year. Banting them wrote a pamphlet
describing the regime, which is very similar to Atkins although not as
proscriptive. It was known as the Banting or Harvey-Banting Diet. It
became so popular that 'banting' came to mean 'dieting'. It's *still* used
in that sense in Sweden; 'jag bantar' means 'I am dieting'.

in article , Eddie at
wrote on 9/24/03 5:00 AM:

Somewhere on the net (forgive me if anyone has posted this, there's
about a 6 hour delay until my messages show up) a lo carb website
posted the contents of a lo-carb diet panthlet from the 1700s (Its a
fascinating read... does anyone have the link ?) - - Dr. Atkins never
claimed to invent lo carb dieting of course... in fact he wrote and
said in interviews that he got it from the American Medical
Association (please correct me if I'm a bit off on this)- - it is what
they were reccomending at the time. I guess for years it was an age
old adage that if you want to lose weight cut back on the bread and
potatoes... Obvoiusly, Dr. Atkins developed and sytemized the
diet... but he never claimed to be the creator of the lo-carb diet.

Ed

William Banting's book can be read in its entirity at the following
location:

http://www.lowcarb.ca/corpulence/index.html

It is (or was) also online somewhere without a frame, but I didn't find that
link.