Cabbage Soup Diet
It’s very easy to describe the cabbage soup diet, it’s FAKE. There’s no need to know anything more about this ridiculous diet. For the sake of filling time, more information is presented.
Nobody knows who created the cabbage soup diet. Like a chain letter or junk e-mail it was sent from fax machines to fax machine in the early 80s. 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. In general this is the diet.
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 — cabbage soup and any vegetable or fruit except bananas or potatoes.
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, unlimited beef, and any vegetables except potatoes.
Day seven — unsweetened fruit juice, vegetables except potatoes, brown rice, and of course our friend cabbage soup.
The cabbage soup diet claims that people can lose 10 pounds in only one week. Unfortunately that would be 10 pounds in water weight. It’s impossible to lose 10 pounds of fat in a week. But given a week the cabbage soup diet could make someone seriously ill from malnutrition.
In addition the cabbage soup diet isn’t easy. Not because it’s too complicated, but rather because seven days of cabbage soup becomes monotonous. 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.
In general nothing quite as extreme as the cabbage soup diet is needed to lose weight. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to accomplish a goal.
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