My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
quote by William Banting
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!