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The macros analysis of the Banting diet are outlined in Table 1 of the study paper ..
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Table 1. Mr Banting’s diet
Components of Intake ... Average ... % as Calories
Energy Intake 1714 kcal/d
Protein intake ... 115 g/d ... 27%
Fat Intake ... 42 g/d ... 22%
Carbohydrate Intake ... 119 g/d ... 28%
Alcohol ... 56 g/d ... 23%
Data analysis performed by Dr. Catherine M. Champaign, PhD. With this diet, he ate 319 kcal at breakfast, 835 kcal at dinner, 240 kcal at tea time and 320 kal at supper. Breakfast: 150–180 g (5–6 oz) of meat or broiled fish (not a fat variety of either); a small biscuit or 30 g (1 oz) of dry toast; a large cup of tea or coffee without cream, milk or sugar. Dinner at 1 PM: Meat or fish as at breakfast, or any kind of game or poultry, same amount; any vegetable except those that grow underground, such as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, or beets; dry toast, 30 g (1 oz); cooked fruit without sugar; good claret, 300 cc (10 oz), Madiera or sherry. Tea at 5 PM: Cooked fruit, 60 to 90 g (2–3 oz); one or two pieces of zwieback; tea, 270 cc (9 oz), without milk, cream or sugar. Supper at 8 PM: Meat or fish, as at dinner, 90–120 cc (3–4 oz); claret or sherry, water, 210 cc (7 oz). Fluids: restricted to 1050 cc (35 oz) per day
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This is NOT Mr. Banting's original diet as prescribed to him by Dr. William Harvey. This is a later, bastardized version of the Banting Diet, crafted by a Dr. Felix Niemeyer of Stuttgart, Germany to make it more acceptable to the medical establishment of the day, who refused to accept that a diet high in fat could possibly be healthy and dismissed Banting's (and Harvey's) work as "unscientific".
William Banting's "Letter on Corpulence to the Public, 4th edition" can be read in full on our host site, lowcarb.ca .. here. This edition is prefaced by a letter from the author, describing the attacks and criticisms on himself and Dr. Harvey by the British (medical) Association, among others. 
Banting's own daily fare included bacon, mutton, beef ... poultry, game .. any fish. Pork, veal, salmon, eels, milk and butter were avoided, not because of fat content but because at the time, these foods were believed to be "farinaceous", ie starchy. In the preface letter, Banting describes his meats, viands and savoury pies accompanied by gravies and jellies (meat aspic) as concocted by his cook.
While not "Atkins Induction" 20g carbs/d lowcarb, Banting's weight loss regimen was certainly much lower in carbs than his previous diet of bread, potatoes and beer.
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Dr. Barry Groves wrote a scholarly analysis of the Banting Diet, for which he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Coe prize by Oxford University in 2002.
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When Banting's booklet, in which he described the diet and its amazing results was published, it was so contrary to the established doctrine that it set up a howl of protest among members of the medical profession. The 'Banting Diet' became the centre of a bitter controversy and Banting's papers and book were ridiculed and distorted. No one could deny that the diet worked, but as a layman had published it, and medical men were anxious that their position in society should not be undermined, they felt bound to attack it. Banting's paper was criticised solely on the grounds that it was 'unscientific'.
Later, Dr. Harvey had a problem too. He had an effective treatment for obesity but not a convincing theory to explain it. As he was a medical man, and so easier for the other members of his profession to attack, he came in for a great deal of ridicule until, in the end, his practice began to suffer.
However, the public was impressed. Many desperate, overweight people tried the diet and found that it worked. Like it or not, the medical profession could not ignore it. Its obvious success meant that the Banting Diet had to be explained somehow.
To the rescue from Stuttgart came a Dr. Felix Niemeyer. He managed to make the new diet acceptable with a total shift in its philosophy. At that time, the theory was that carbohydrates and fat burned together in the lungs to produce heat. The two were called 'respiratory foods'. After examining Banting's paper, Niemeyer came up with an answer to the doctors' problem. All doctors knew that protein was not fattening, only the respiratory foods — fats and carbohydrates. He, therefore, interpreted 'meat' to mean only lean meat with the fat trimmed off and this subtle change solved the problem. The Banting Diet became a high protein diet with both carbohydrate and fat restricted. This altered diet became enshrined in history and still forms the basis of slimming diets today.
Banting's descriptions of the diet are quite clear, however. Other than the prohibition against butter and pork, nowhere is there any instruction to remove the fat from meat and there is no restriction on the way food was cooked or on the total quantity of food which may be taken. Only carbohydrate — sugars and starches — are restricted. The reason that butter and pork were denied him was that it was thought at this time that they too contained starch.
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The full essay can be read here .. http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/banting.html.
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