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Introduction
Medical diet for 14 days - Scarsdale, created by an American cardiologist in the late 70s, continues to attract many followers, because of its quick effects. It is a low calorie diet - energy intake of approximately 1000 kcal.
Scarsdale Diet is of "low carb" - based on limiting the contributions of carbohydrates. The daily menu includes three types of foods: vegetables, fruit and meat (no fat).
At the end of each diet for two weeks, follow a weight maintenance plan, which offers a wider range of foods allowed, but continue to ban foods high in starch (pasta, rice, potatoes, maize, pulses), all the sweets with sugar, all fats, chocolate, meats and most dairy. Foods allowed in the diet to maintain: three eggs per week, two slices of bread per day, sugarless jam, nuts, alcohol (one glass of wine a day).
Scarsdale Diet exist in several variants: exotic - where food recall food traditions from different countries, economic-for people who want to limit expenditure on food, and even a vegetarian diet Scarsdale.
