Basically a very low calorie diet, the Cabbage Soup Diet works,
temporarily, by cutting daily calories to near-starvation levels
What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?
Interestingly, no person or organization seems to want to claim
responsibility for inventing the cabbage soup diet! So there isn't
an "official" propriety version, but various cabbage
diet plans based around eating copious quantities of cabbage soup,
and very little else.
You can eat as much of the soup as you like, as often as you
like. Drink as much water as you like and non-caloric drinks including
coffee, tea, and herbal teas.
Does the Cabbage Soup Diet Work?
In the short term most people would lose weight very quickly.
However, the loss of weight will come from loss of water and muscle
tissue not from fat reserves. The combination of foods "allowed"
would force most people to nearly starve each day. This could
actually be counter-productive, forcing the body into starvation
mode will slow metabolism and encourage the body to hang on to
fat reserves!
