This diet qualifies for entry into the Single Food Diet Sweepstakes, and states right up front that you should only stay on it for 7 days with the goal of experiencing the gratification of quick weight loss. Then the author suggests that you go off the diet for 2 weeks before trying it for another 7 days. Why the on-off approach? Because, in the author’s own words, “The New Cabbage Soup Diet is not appropriate for long-term use. It is not intended as a substitute for good long-term eating habits. The diet may be used for up to a week, but after a week the reader should switch to a normal nutritionally balanced diet [italics mine]
. . . The reader should not use the New Cabbage Soup Diet too frequently even with 2-week or longer intervals in between uses.” When the diet’s own author admits this right up front, you know that there are serious problems with the diet. If nothing else, it’s meant to be a quick fix that teaches you nothing about proper lifelong eating habits. So even though cabbage is one of my favorite foods (I eat a bowlful a week), I suggest you avoid this diet.
Cabbage soup diets have appeared under various names, including the Fat Burning Soup Diet, the New Mayo Clinic Diet, and the Scared Heart Hospital Diet. Just to set the record straight, there’s nothing especially fat-burning about eating cabbage soup, and this diet is not associated with the Mayo Clinic or any of the many hospitals that go by the name of Sacred Heart.
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