The Banting Diet

most certainly led to death. Doctors only knew that sugar made the condition worse and that the most effective treatment was to put the patients on very strict diets where the amount of sugar intake was kept to a minimum. At best, this treatment could buy patients a few extra years, but it never saved them. In some cases, the harsh diets even caused patients to die of starvation. During the nineteenth century, observations of patients who died of diabetes often showed that the pancreas was damaged

thing that could have been done was be put on a strict diet for meals, however this didn’t really help to cure or treat diabetes. In 1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best (medical student) made a huge impact in modern medicine by discovering the hormone Insulin. Banting and Best discovered insulin as they were extracting from a dog's pancreas. They soon got help from a Canadian chemist, James Collip, who provided cow pancreas to Banting and Best who extracted the hormone and Collip would purify

school in Toronto and commenced his work in 1919. Years later he received his bachelor’s degrees in physiology and biochemistry in 1921, he became a summer research assistant and professor J.J.R. MacLeod allocated him to work with Dr. Frederick Banting and that’s where the amazing journey began. Together they had exhilarating experiments in the summer and even convinced

Banting, in a letter to Albert Gooderham, a chairman of the Insulin Committee during the 1922 dispute between Banting, Best and Macleod on who discovered insulin, stated that Collip was the soul person to solve this problem. “Dr. Collip, stated Banting “...announced that he had developed a process by which he could obtain an extract which contained no protein and no lipase.” This is significant because Banting’s work and fame was carried out by other scientists, like James Collip. He was not the

useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson (www.goodreads.com 2014). Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891 In Alliston, Ontario. He was the youngest of five children and his parents were William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. he went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but later transferred to the study of medicine. In 1916 he took his M.B. degree and then joined the Canadian

20th century (Brar). On average, around 2000+ people are diagnosed with Diabetes every day. Around 800,000 people are diagnosed with Diabetes every year. People who have Diabetes are generally encouraged to exercise and must eat from a specific diet. Exercises mostly include aerobics and balanced insulin levels with other exercise techniques (Kelly). Insulin is a hormone that is produced from what is known as the “islets of Langerhans”, discovered by German Histologist Paul Langerhans, and

people had this issue. In the 1900’s, the only treatments for diabetes were starvation diets and very strict exercise program. Dr. Frederick Bating, the inventor of insulin, had spent a lot of his time studying the disease of diabetes. He thought if he could isolate insulin in animals, it would be possible to use it to treat people with diabetes. Later on his theory proved to be correct. Dr. Frederick Banting needed a lab to test his theory and work on it so he could have insulin mass produced and

Insulin for diabetes was discovered in 1921 at the University of Toronto by Sir Frederick G. Banting, Charles H. Best, and JJR Macleod. James B. Collip subsequently purified it, and one year later on January 11, it was put to use on a young 14 year old boy named Leonard Thompson; a patient at Toronto General Hospital. Once the substance was delivered, it was found that the extract was so pure that he suffered an allergic reaction, and further injections were cancelled. James Collip worked for the

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Frederick Banting read an article about the pancreas. He was instantly intrigued, and devised a way to isolate the secretion. However, there was one issue; Banting didn’t have a lab, or the equipment needed to perform his experiments. In 1921, he decided to propose his idea to Professor J.R.R. Macleod of the University of Toronto. A few months later, Macleod finally agreed to his proposal, and Banting was allowed to use the University’s lab during the summer, while Macleod was away. Banting and a