The Cabbage Soup Diet Scam

By zoe | Feb 21, 2009

Anyone who wants an explanation of the cabbage soup diet can have one – BALONEY.  Anything else is just a lot of noise. But for those who insist here is more.

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The inventor of the cabbage soup diet isn’t known. 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. 

Water is important in the cabbage soup diet, often the only drink allowed in the course of the day.  A general outline of the diet is something like this|Here’s how the diet works.

Day one — cabbage soup and fruit, but not 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 — enjoy the daily Cabbage soup plus up to eight 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|Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice – no potatoes|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. What the cabbage soup diet could accomplish in a week is to make someone sick from eating poorly.

The other problem with the cabbage soup diet is that it’s a very difficult diet to follow. Not because it’s too complicated, but rather because seven days of cabbage soup becomes monotonous. It was common for people to last only a couple of days before quitting. There were even attempts to spice up cabbage soup recipes but they failed.

In general nothing quite as extreme as the cabbage soup diet is needed to lose weight. A program of exercise plus cutting down calories than what you normally eat on a day-to-day basis can be very effective.

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