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It’s very easy to describe the cabbage soup diet FAKE. There’s really no need for further explanation. But for those who insist here is more.
The inventor of the cabbage soup diet isn’t known. 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.
Water is important in the cabbage soup diet, often the only drink allowed in the course of the day. In general this is the diet.
Day one — cabbage soup plus as much fruit as you can eat, but no bananas.
Day two — cabbage soup, vegetables which could be half of a baked potato without butter.
Day three — cabbage soup and any vegetable or fruit except bananas or potatoes.
Day four — cabbage soup, eight bananas, 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 — Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice no potatoes.
It was often claimed the cabbage soup diet could result in as much as 10 pounds of weight loss in only week. Unfortunately that would be 10 pounds in water weight. Nutritionists agree that it’s just not possible to lose 10 pounds of fat in only one week. What the cabbage soup diet could accomplish in a week is to make someone sick from eating poorly.
The other problem with the cabbage soup diet is that it’s a very difficult diet to follow. That isn’t to say that it’s complicated, but cabbage soup seven days in a row can be quite bland and boring. Quitting the cabbage soup diet after only a few days was common. There was even an attempt to spice up the cabbage soup diet with new recipes, but that 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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