Monday, January 26, 2009

Is The Cabbage Soup Diet Dangerous

By Ron C

There's a very simple description for the cabbage soup diet FRAUD. Anything else is just a lot of noise. But in case you're curious here is additional information.

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. There were many names for the diet, occasionally a well-known institution such as St. Jude's diet. Any suggested relationship to these institutions is fabricated.

Most people on the cabbage soup diet drink nothing but H2O (water) or unsweetened fruit juice. A general outline of the diet is something like this.

Day one -- cabbage soup and fruit, no bananas.

Day two -- cabbage soup plus vegetables, a half serve baked potato without butter.

Day three -- cabbage soup plus vegetables and fruit, but no potato's or bananas.

Day four -- enjoy the daily Cabbage soup plus up to eight bananas and skimmed milk.

Day five -- cabbage soup and as much as 20 ounces of beef, as well as six tomatoes.

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

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

According to the cabbage soup diet you could lose ten pounds in just a week. What the diet doesn't specify is that most of that weight loss would be water. It's impossible to lose 10pounds of fat in seven days. What the cabbage soup diet could accomplish in a week is to make someone unwell from eating poorly.

In addition the cabbage soup diet isn't straightforward. Not because it's too complicated, but rather because seven daysof cabbage soup becomes repetitive. Many people who have started the cabbage soup diet quit after only one or two days. Even as more exciting cabbage soup recipes, including some with various spices, made the rounds people still stopped early.

In general nothing quite as extreme as the cabbage soup diet is needed to lose fat. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to achieve a goal. - 15438

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