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What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?

Anyone who wants an explanation of the cabbage soup diet can have one – BALONEY. There's no need to know anything more about this ridiculous diet. But for those who insist here is more.

The origins of the cabbage soup diet are nebulous. It first appeared in the early 1980s, faxed from person to person like a chain letter. The diet went under many names, often using a part of the name of a well respected institution such as the Russian peasant diet, or the St. Jude's diet. But in reality the diet had nothing to do with many of these namesakes.

The cabbage soup diet calls for drinking nothing but water or unsweetened fruit juice on days when juice is allowed. A general outline of the diet is something like this.

Day one -- cabbage soup and any fruit except bananas.

Day two -- cabbage soup, vegetables – which could be half of a baked potato without butter.

Day three -- add vegetables and fruit to the daily cabbage soup, but no bananas or potato.

Day four -- cabbage soup +8 bananas and skimmed milk.

Day five -- cabbage soup, six tomatoes and up to 20 ounces of beef.

Day six -- cabbage soup and as much of beef and vegetables as you can eat, no potatoes.

Day seven -- cabbage soup, brown rice, vegetables, unsweetened fruit juice, but no potatoes.

According to the cabbage soup diet you could lose 10 pounds in just a week. What the diet doesn't specify is that most of that weight loss would be water. A week is simply too short a time in which to lose 10 pounds of fat. But given a week the cabbage soup diet could make someone seriously ill from malnutrition.

It's also pretty hard to stick to the cabbage soup diet. That isn't to say that it's complicated, but cabbage soup seven days in a row can be quite bland and boring. Quitting the cabbage soup diet after only a few days was common. There were even attempts to spice up cabbage soup recipes but they failed.

You don't have to turn to something goofy like the cabbage soup diet for weight loss. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to accomplish a goal.
Dan Carlin

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