In a Cape Town township, Nasreen Riley cooks up butter-fried chicken livers in a full-cream tomato sauce as part of the controversial "Banting" diet, mostly eaten in wealthier suburbs. The Banting ...

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 ...

It was 100 years ago this Saturday morning when Sir Frederick Banting awoke in the night from a restless sleep in the bedroom of his London, Ont. house and scribbled down on a piece of paper an idea ...

The language and concepts used to describe the physical body are inherently shaped by cultural forces. It is difficult to say whether the audience of some three hundred listeners sitting before ...

GOOGLE is marking the 125th birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, the man who discovered insulin was key to the treatment of diabetes - a day which coincides with World Diabetes Day. The search engine’s ...