Brewer's: Banting

Doing Banting. Reducing superfluous fat by living on meat diet, and abstaining from beer, farinaceous food, and vegetables, according to the method adopted by William Banting, a London cabinet-maker, once a very fat man (born 1796, died 1878). The word was introduced about 1864.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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