The Scarsdale diet has its own set of problems. Tarnower's pattern of regulated eating creates ketosis which is an imbalance in your system. A nurse I spoke to one evening in the ER (I had to be there for a couple of hours and we got to talking) was just back from maternity leave - she had decided to go on the Scarsdale diet a while back and her doctor friends said they'd monitor her ketosis - but it messed up her birth control pills working correctly and she ended up pregnant.

I'm sure there are other metabolic things messed up by ketosis.

SRS