Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Is The Cabbage Soup Diet Dangerous

By Cathy M

There's a very basic description for the cabbage soup diet CRAPOLA. Anything else is just a lot of speculation and innuendos. But in case you're curious here is additional information.

The origins of the cabbage soup diet are indefinable. It first appeared in the initial 1980s, faxed from person to person like a chain letter. There were many names for the diet, at times a well-known institution such as St. Jude's diet. Any suggested relationship to these institutions is untruthful.

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 -- vegetables and the cabbage soup, a half serve baked potato without butter.

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

Day four -- cabbage soup, 8 bananas, 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 -- Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice 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 a week. What the cabbage soup diet could accomplish in a week is to make someone ill from eating poorly.

In addition the cabbage soup diet isn't straightforward. Not because it's too complicated, but rather because seven days of cabbage soup becomes tedious. 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 gave up 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. - 16004

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