The cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no long-term commitment.[1]
The typical claimed intent of the diet is to lose 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of weight in a week,[2] though nutritional experts point out that it is nearly impossible to lose that much fat within a week: much of the weight lost is water.
- ^ Alters, Sandra; Schiff, Wendy (22 February 2012). Chapter 10: Body Weight and Its Management (Sixth ed.). Jones & Bartlett Publishers. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4496-3062-1.
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