The scarsdale diet was, like, of course. massive at the time. The origin of the scarsdale diet is a single paragraph in an article in the new york times in april of 19 78. There was also a diet that a family friend got married in the seventies. Diet that she did before her wedding was, you just eat grape fruit and eggs. This is peak time for people treating super whacky diets as somehow reasonable and normal. What i'm fastened by is it was also a time where you could just say the most deranged shit about a diet and people would believe you. Not like now, i know, like, we've got lik so much