The Lab, which sold for more than $313,000 at auction Wednesday night in Toronto, depicts the site of one of the most important medical discoveries of the 20th century as rendered by one of its ...

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FREDERICK Banting is being celebrated today in a Google Doodle – but how much do you know about the Canadian medical scientist who co-discovered insulin? November 14 is Sir Frederick’s 125th birthday ...

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Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the ...

Millions of people worldwide now suffer from diabetes, but until the 1920s there was no way to treat it. After years of experimenting on how to extract insulin from the pancreas (which is where the ...

Photo: In this lab, Banting and Best carried out early experiments which led to the discovery of insulin. In 1920, Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting visited the University of Toronto to speak to the ...

William Banting is known for the being the first person to promote the benefits of a low-carb diet , which was originally referred to as the “Banting diet”. Almost 150 years after his renowned booklet ...

For as long as people have been watching their figure, diet gurus have been there to tell us how best to shed pounds and keep in shape. According to legend, William the Conqueror went on a liquid diet ...

While low-carb diets are all the rage today, they can be traced back to one man who is said to have birthed the stripped back way of eating. William Banting, who was a funeral director living in ...