Scarsdale medical diet

The Scarsdale diet is a diet designed for weight loss created in the 1970s by Herman Tarnower, named for the town in New York where he practiced cardiology, described in the book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet plus Dr. Tarnower's Lifetime Keep-Slim Program, which Tarnower wrote with an author of self-help books, Sam Sinclair Baker. While Harding le Riche praised it as "quite satisfactory and well-balanced" (although adding "like most diets, it's too difficult for most people to stay on") it is often seen as a fad diet.