The Controvesy Behind Cabbage Soup Diet

Anyone who wants an explanation of the cabbage soup diet plan can have one - BALONEY.  Anything else is just a lot of noise. For the sake of filling time, more information is presented.

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. 

The cabbage soup diet calls for drinking nothing but water or unsweetened fruit juice on days when juice is allowed.  Here's how the diet works.

Day one -- cabbage soup and fruit, but not bananas.

Day two -- cabbage soup as usual, and vegetables including a half baked potato without 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 and as much as 20 ounces of beef, as well as 6 tomatoes.

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.

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. It is however, possible to get sick from a lack of nutrition which is one danger with the cabbage soup diet.

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. 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.

You don't have to turn to something goofy like the cabbage soup diet for weight loss. A program of exercise plus cutting down calories than what you normally eat on a day-to-day basis can be very effective.