How It Works: The New Cabbage Soup Diet

How It Works: The New Cabbage Soup Diet

The New Cabbage Soup Diet uses a strict and structured one-week menu designed to drop as many as ten pounds. During this week, one day you have just fruits and milk. The next is vegetables and milk. Another is bananas and milk. But each day you can have all the cabbage soup you can eat.

The diet works on the principle that it is low in calories. By giving you guidelines of certain ingredients to use on specific days, it is designed to keep the calorie and fat content as low as possible without sacrificing vital nutrients according to the author, Margaret Danbrot. The working agents are antioxidents and phytochemicals. Danbrot says these work to rid the body of toxins. While there are no "magical" ingredients in the soup, Danbrot claims it's a combination of the "superfoods" in the rest of the diet that make the weight disappear.

The author makes clear the diet is not designed to be a substitution for good nutrition. She says it is designed to run 7 days and then be abandoned for at least another 2 weeks before it can be used again. Danbrot says the periodic break from the diet is designed to replenish your body's nutrient needs and develop good eating practices.

Source: "The New Cabbage Soup Diet," by Margaret Danbrot