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Cabbage Soup Diet

Description:

The Cabbage Soup Diet is a seven-day plan circulating the Internet and included in some diet books. The claim for this diet is that “superfoods” in certain combinations burn off body fat. In the following popular version of the Cabbage Soup Diet, you eat all the soup you want, but you have to eat it at least once a day. Permitted drinks are black coffee, unsweetened tea, cranberry juice, and water. You cannot have bread, alcohol, or carbonated drinks.

Created: 2000

Categories: One Food, Fad

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Expert Review:

This diet has inherent risks for anyone with any underlying health issues (including people who do not realize they have health issues).  It is a gimmick that can only be followed for a very short period of time (generally 1 week is what they suggest). This might be a silly diet you do for a week to fit into your dress for the high school reunion, but it is certainly not a plan for a lifelong commitment to health and fitness.

Sample Menu:

Day One:

Eat all the cabbage soup and fruit you want (except bananas).

 

Day Two:

Eat all the soup and fresh, raw, or cooked vegetables you want except beans, peas, and corn. For dinner, you can treat yourself to a baked potato with butter.

 

Day Three:

Eat all the soup, fruits, and vegetables you want, but omit the baked potato.

 

Day Four:

Eat up to eight bananas and all the cabbage soup and skim milk you want in order to lessen your “sweet tooth.”

 

Day Five:

Eat all the soup you want and up to twenty ounces of beef and six fresh tomatoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water to wash the uric acid from your body. You may substitute broiled or baked chicken without skin or broiled fish for your beef.

 

Day Six:

Eat all the beef and vegetables you want, but no baked potato. Eat your soup at least once.

 

Day Seven:

Eat all the brown rice and vegetables you want and drink unsweetened fruit juices. Eat your soup at least once.

 

Cabbage Soup Recipe

6 large green onions (sliced)

2 green peppers (chopped)

1-2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)

3 carrots (chopped)

10 oz. mushrooms (sliced)

1 bunch of celery

Half a head of cabbage (chopped into bite-sized pieces)

1 package Lipton soup mix

1-2 cubes of bouillon (optional)

One 48 oz can V8 juice (optional)

 

Seasonings such as salt, pepper, parsley, curry, garlic powder, etc.

 

Place all ingredients into a large pot and cover with 12 cups of water (or use 8 cups of water plus V8 juice). Let the soup simmer on low for at least two hours, and add seasonings to taste.

 

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Expert Comments:

Fad, pure and simple. Eating only cabbage soup will certainly allow you to lose weight, but it is not something that will lead to a sustainable lifestyle of healthy eating and fitness.



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