You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In the late 1800s, William Banting, a wealthy Londoner, knew that many people were battling the same ...

Charlotte Edwardes reveals how a short, fat Victorian funeral director became a household name with a dietary regime amazingly similar to the most current food fad On the August morning that he began ...

Durban - Hardly a day goes by without the word Banting cropping up. Everyone knows someone who is Banting – following the diet recently popularised by Professor Tim Noakes and his Real Meal Revolution ...

For as long as people have been watching their figure, diet gurus have been there to tell us how best to shed pounds and keep in shape. According to legend, William the Conqueror went on a liquid diet ...

While low-carb diets are all the rage today, they can be traced back to one man who is said to have birthed the stripped back way of eating. William Banting, who was a funeral director living in ...

Professor Tim Noakes has ignited an eating revolution in this country and truth be told, I am a big fan. Every single person I've talked to, who has tried this low-carb way of eating, has lost weight, ...

In a Cape Town township, Nasreen Riley cooks up butter-fried chicken livers in a full-cream tomato sauce as part of the controversial "Banting" diet, mostly eaten in wealthier suburbs. The Banting ...