The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet

Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Dr Herman Tarnower warned his patients to eat sensibly and stay trim. When they complained that diets didn't work, he decided to find a diet that would work. After years of research and medical trials he founded the Scarsdale Medical Centre and developed a weight loss program that he believed was simple, safe and fast. • What makes the diet work so miraculously? • How do I keep the weight off? • What if I want to take off still more? • What’s the easy way to have a lean, healthy body for life? Dr. Tarnower now gives you all the facts about the most popular diet ever discovered—plus the lifetime secrets of staying thin! You’ll get the simple basics of diet chemistry . . . an easy plan for losing up to twenty pounds in two weeks . . . a two-on—two-off program for maintaining a healthy weight . . . and new diet variation menus: gourmet, money-saver, vegetarian, and international.