When was the low carb and Calorie (nutrition) discovered?
Tagged As: low carb diet nutrition Question: When in college, I remember reading about a few cultures who didn’t associate sex with pregnancy except for making the observation that virgins didn’t get pregnant and got to wondering if the same could be true for obesity. There must be some cultures that never connected getting fat with eating too much. However, I think western culture always saw the connection but they didn’t know why some foods made you fatter then others volume per volume ie why the man who ate lots of cream and honey gained more weight then the man who ate metric assloads of green vegetables. One of the first attempts to popularize a weight loss plan was Sir William Banting’s Letter on Corpulence written in 1862 by a man who lost weight following a primitive version of a low carb diet. It was bought up in the discussion forum on the Protein Power website that this happened before the calorie theory was invented (before that it was just a unit of heat) and therefore the
