A variant spelling or reference related to 'banting' (a historical diet method).
Related to William Banting, a 19th-century undertaker who popularized a low-carbohydrate diet.
William Banting's diet was so famous in Victorian England that his last name literally became a verb — people would say they were 'banting' to describe dieting, making him one of the first diet celebrities.
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