This seven-day diet supposedly traces its beginnings to the cardiology departments of the Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Diet or the Miami Heart Institute. The legend is that your surgeon gave you this diet the week before you had heart surgery in order to “purify your system” and make you lose between ten and seventeen pounds.
Created:
2000
Categories:
Fad
Website:
Sacred HeartHospitalMedicalDiet.aspx
Meetings:
No
Books:
No
Sample Menu:
You can have as much of the following soup as you want:
SOUP
1 or 2 cans of stewed tomatoes
3 large green onions
1 large can of beef broth (no fat)
1 pkg. Lipton Chicken Noodle Soup mix (chicken noodle)
1 bunch of celery
2 cans green beans
2 lbs. carrots
2 green peppers
Cut vegetables in small to medium pieces. Cover with water. Season with salt, pepper, parsley, bouillon, Worcestershire or hot sauce. Boil fast for 10 minutes. Reduce to simmer and continue to cook until veggies are tender.
DAY ONE
Eat only soup and any fruit you want except bananas.
DAY TWO
Eat only soup and all the fresh, raw, cooked or canned vegetables you want except for beans, peas or corn. At night you can have a baked potato.
DAY THREE
Eat all the soup, fruit and vegetables (see above) you want but no baked potato.
DAY FOUR
Eat at least three bananas and drink as much skim milk as you can today, along with the soup.
DAY FIVE
Eat the soup again along with 10 to 20 ounces of beef and one can of tomatoes or as many as six tomatoes on this day. You may substitute cooked chicken without skin for your beef.
DAY SIX
Eat as much beef and as many vegetables as you want but no baked potato. Two or three steaks or more are okay today. Have your soup at least once today.
DAY SEVEN
Eat as much brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice and vegetables as you want, and continue with your soup. It is okay to add cooked vegetables to your rice.
DRINKS:
Unsweetened juices
Tea (also herbal)
Coffee
Cranberry juice
Skim milk
Water