There's a very simple explanation for the cabbage soup diet - FRAUD. Anything else is just a lot of noise. But for those who insist here is more.
Nobody knows who created the cabbage soup diet. It was one of the diets faxed from machine to machine in the early 1980's. 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. Needless to say, the diet has no relation to any of the institutions, nations, or people used in these names.
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 plus vegetables, which could include a half baked potato with no butter.
Day three -- add vegetables and fruit to the daily cabbage soup, but no bananas or potato.
Day four -- cabbage soup, eight bananas, skimmed milk.
Day five -- cabbage soup, six tomatoes and up to 20 ounces of beef.
Day six -- cabbage soup plus as much beef and vegetables as can be eaten, but no potatoes.
Day seven -- unsweetened fruit juice, vegetables except potatoes, brown rice, and of course our friend cabbage soup.
It was often claimed the cabbage soup diet could result in as much as 10 pounds of weight loss in only week. While it may be possible, most of that weight will be water weight. 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. In general this isn't because it's difficult to understand but rather because cabbage soup isn't a lot of fun. Many people who have started the cabbage soup diet quit after only one or two days. There were even attempts to spice up cabbage soup recipes but they failed.
Realistically people don't need a fad diet like the cabbage soup diet to lose weight. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to accomplish a goal. - 15343
Nobody knows who created the cabbage soup diet. It was one of the diets faxed from machine to machine in the early 1980's. 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. Needless to say, the diet has no relation to any of the institutions, nations, or people used in these names.
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 plus vegetables, which could include a half baked potato with no butter.
Day three -- add vegetables and fruit to the daily cabbage soup, but no bananas or potato.
Day four -- cabbage soup, eight bananas, skimmed milk.
Day five -- cabbage soup, six tomatoes and up to 20 ounces of beef.
Day six -- cabbage soup plus as much beef and vegetables as can be eaten, but no potatoes.
Day seven -- unsweetened fruit juice, vegetables except potatoes, brown rice, and of course our friend cabbage soup.
It was often claimed the cabbage soup diet could result in as much as 10 pounds of weight loss in only week. While it may be possible, most of that weight will be water weight. 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. In general this isn't because it's difficult to understand but rather because cabbage soup isn't a lot of fun. Many people who have started the cabbage soup diet quit after only one or two days. There were even attempts to spice up cabbage soup recipes but they failed.
Realistically people don't need a fad diet like the cabbage soup diet to lose weight. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to accomplish a goal. - 15343
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