Cabbage Soup Diet: The truth about the famous fad diet.
The Cabbage Soup Diet is based
on a fat-burning soup that contains negligible calories. The regimen
relies on strange food combinations that force you to nearly starve
yourself each day. Dieters are allowed all the water and cabbage
soup they want, plus a very restricted set of other foods.
A running myth suggests that this diet
originated at any number of American hospitals, but thus far none have
claimed it as their own. It probably started at Sacred Heart Hospital
in Brussels, Belgium as a way for seriously obese patients to lose some
quick weight before surgery.
As far as for the average overweight person,
the Cabbage Soup Diet is totally unrealistic if one is interested in
more than very short-term weight loss. It is hard to imagine eating
cabbage soup for an extended period of time. How fast is that temporary
weight loss going to stick? This is not a nutritionally sound plan and
certainly not one to live on. If you can’t live on it, there doesn’t
seem much point in putting yourself back on the rollercoaster of weight
loss frustration and heartache.
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