There's a very simple description for the cabbage soup diet FRAUD. Anything else is just a lot of noise. But in case you're curious here is additional information.

The origins of the cabbage soup diet are nebulous. It first appeared in the early 1980s, faxed from person to person like a chain letter. There were many names for the diet, occasionally a well-known institution such as St. Jude's diet. Any suggested relationship to these institutions is fabricated.

Most individuals on the cabbage soup diet drink nothing but water or unsweetened fruit juice. A general outline of the diet is something like this.

Day one -- cabbage soup and fruit, no bananas.

Day two -- vegetables and the cabbage soup, which could include a half baked potato with no butter.

Day three -- cabbage soup plus vegetables and fruit, but no potatoes or bananas.

Day four -- cabbage soup, 8 bananas, skimmed milk.

Day five -- cabbage soup and as much as 20 ounces of beef, as well as six tomatoes.

Day six -- cabbage soup and as much of beef and vegetables as you can eat, no potatoes.

Day seven -- Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice no potatoes.

According to the cabbage soup diet you could go down 10 pounds in just a week. What the diet doesn't specify is that most of that weight loss would be water. It's impossible to lose 10pounds of weight in a week. But given a weekthe cabbage soup diet could make someone seriously ill from malnutrition.

In addition the cabbage soup diet isn't straightforward. Not because it's too complicated, but rather because seven daysof cabbage soup becomes tedious. Many people who have started the cabbage soup diet quit after only one or two days. Even as more exciting cabbage soup recipes, including some with various spices, made the rounds people still gave up early.

In general nothing quite as extreme as the cabbage soup diet is considered necessary to lose weight. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to achieve a goal.