It is a well-known fact in the present world that excessive weight gain is highly detrimental to health and therefore it is necessary for an overweight individual to immediately indulge in weight loss programs so that it is possible for them to reduce the adverse effects that obesity may have on the body. Diet programs are a preferred option when it comes to weight loss and there are a wide variety of diet programs available at present though all of them are not quite effective in their purpose. The Scarsdale diet program was devised by certain expert medical practitioners from Scarsdale and thus the Scarsdale diet was previously referred to as the Scarsdale medical diet. Here it is necessary to note that many have dismissed the Scarsdale diet as a gimmick and nothing but a fad diet and this is interesting to note as all medical practitioners are aware of the disadvantages of fad diets and therefore it is quite paradoxical to note that a dietary plan devised by a group of medical experts can amount to becoming a fad diet. This is one of the reasons why the Scarsdale diet found very few takers within the medical community as well.

The main characteristic of the Scarsdale diet is that it is a low carb diet. It imposes severe restrictions upon the consumption of carbs. Some of the very popular low carb diets like the South Beach diet and the Atkins’ diet programs have emerged extremely successful over the period of several years and their traditional weight loss methods have proved beneficial without harming the body. In case of the Scarsdale diet, it has been noted that while it is a low carb diet, it restricts the amount of calorie consumption to around 700 calories which is extremely unhealthy. Under normal conditions, women require about 1200 calories and men about 1400 calories daily and a minimum of 800 calorie daily intake is advised during diets. Therefore such low caloric inputs as suggested in case of Scarsdale diets are prone to harming the body. The Scarsdale diet is therefore not concerned with the maintenance of the body’s welfare and goes blindly into guaranteeing drastic weight loss similar to fad diet programs. The Scarsdale diet also encourages a very strict and compact diet program which under most circumstances is difficult to maintain after a period of time and like the fad diets, once the Scarsdale diet is discontinued, weight loss is apparent.

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