 Cabbage Soup Diet Cabbage is a vegetable very rich in fiber but very low in calories. The amount of calories that you require to process cabbage soup in your body is more than the amount of calories that cabbage soup can give you. Allegedly, the more soup you eat the more weight you lose. Although this diet is not suitable as long-term weight loss program, it allows you to lose up to 10 lbs in a single week.
Cabbage Soup Diet Principles
The cabbage soup diet is sometimes referred to as the "Mayo Clinic Diet", and the "Sacred Heart Hospital Diet". Interestingly, this diet has nothing to do with either the Mayo Clinic or the Sacred Heart Hospital.
Cabbage Soup Recipe
Ingredients:
- 6 large green onions, 2 green peppers, 2 carrots and a head of cabbage
- 1 can of diced or whole tomatoes
- a bunch of celery, salt, pepper, parsley and curry
- 2 cubes of buillon
Directions:
- slice the onions and put them in pot; start to saute with cooking spray
- meanwhile, clean and cut the green pepper, the cabbage and the carrots into bite size pieces; add them to pot
- use about 10 cups of water, cover and put heat on low letting soup cook for a long time (about two hours)
- add salt, pepper, spices and cubes of bouillon for seasonings
The Truth about Cabbage Soup Diet
This diet has nothing to do with either the Mayo Clinic nor any Sacred Heart Hospital. This diet restricts the intake of major food groups thus being dangerous specially for teens and children. Dieters might experience initial success, but the inability to sustain this weight loss in the long run will cause dieters to regain all the weight back and then some. |
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