Today, people are so confused regarding diet and lifestyle selection. One can drown in all the modern diet options available. We all know something is terribly wrong because the ‘dis-ease’ statistics confirm that there are serious problems. The Banting diet has received a lot of attention over the past four years. Before we start debating it, let us look at the ten key principles of the Banting Diet:

1. It is a high fat, medium protein and low carb diet.

2. Choose real foods and prepare them from scratch.

3. Fat is not the enemy, enjoy it!

4. Eat only when you are hungry.

5. Stop eating when you are no longer hungry.

6. Stop snacking.

7. No sugar, it is an addiction.

8. No grains of any kind.

9. None or very little fruit.

10. Embrace eggs.

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