Name of a London cabinet-maker, whose method of reducing corpulence by avoiding fat, starch, and sugar in food, was published and much discussed in the year 1864. Hence Bantingism, Bantingize v., and, Banting being humorously treated as a vbl. sb., the vb. to Bant.
1864. Reader, No. 91. 392/1. A few observations on Bantingism.
1864. Times, 12 Aug., 4/1. The New Testament and the Classics seemed to have undergone a successful course of ‘Banting.’
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 12 June, 9/2. If he is … ‘gouty, obese, and nervous,’—we strongly recommend him to ‘bant.’
1881. Echo, 24 June. There are fewer persons ‘Bantingised’ in America than in England.
1883. Knowledge, 27 July, 49/2. Bantingism excludes beer, butter, and sugar.
