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1978: gunning for calories - physician Herman Tarnower's Scarsdale diet - Brief Article

Men's Fitness, Oct, 2003

The late Dr. Herman Tarnower's highly regimented program, outlined in his book The Complete Scarsdale Diet, demanded that followers give up alcohol, butter and oil and subsist on 700 calories a day of mostly protein. Snacks consisted of carrots and celery. The doctor's rigidity and the lack of a co-credit on his book helped drive jilted lover Jean Harris to gun him down.

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Tarnower's diet became moot, while Harris was stuck with 12 years of the New York penal system's eat-it-or-leave-it meal plan.

1978: gunning for calories - physician Herman Tarnower's Scarsdale diet - Brief Article

Men's Fitness, Oct, 2003

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