Controversial Fad Diet – Cabbage Soup

Rightly or wrongly, we live in a very image conscious and driven society where our physical appearance seems to have a disproportionate effect on the quality of life that we can confidently enjoy. Perhaps that accounts for the significant number of people who are actively involved in some sort of diet.

This would not be much of an issue if people were following the instructions and making use of the guidance provided by carefully prepared eating plans which had the supervision and approval of nutritionists and dietitians. Regrettably, many people, for a variety of reasons, have now sought to rely upon fad diets and eating plans instead.

This is an extremely dangerous and counterproductive road to tread down and this is primarily due to the fact that these sorts of diets and eating plans typically provide and espouse a very skewered and oftentimes, limited perspective about certain types of food. In particular, the typical fad diet plan will promote a particular type of food, disproportionately heralding its benefits whilst at the same time, demonising another.

The simple truth of the matter is this: our body needs a wide range of different nutrients and minerals and so to reduce these (or worse yet, eliminate them altogether) is not only illogical, but potentially dangerous as well.

One of the most controversial and popular fad diet plans has been the now infamous cabbage soup diet. One of the cornerstones of this diet was that the dieter would be able to enjoy and reap the benefits of very rapid and profound weight loss in a short space of time, and the promoters of this dieting plan usually pegged this figure at 10lbs a week.

Such an overly ambitious claim quickly reached the ears of nutritional experts who were gravely concerned by these claims and so they sought to actively challenge it. According to the experts, weight loss at this level is not sustainable over a prolonged period of time, and actually achieving it in the first place was itself a major feat.

Furthermore, the experts also expressed their concern over the fact that the cabbage soup diet would not actually allow the dieter to lose excess weight from their body (which should be the primary focus of any diet as it is excessive fat deposits that pose the health risks) but rather, the weight lost would result from water stores being depleted from the body.

The reason that this is significant is because it would mean that even if the dieter WAS indeed able to lose any amount of weight solely using the cabbage soup diet plan, such progress would be a short lived and hollow victory at best because they would simply regain the water.

Concerns have also been directly raised concerning the fact that the cabbage soup diet effectively advocates a total elimination and conspicuous absence of protein during the course of the diet. The long term effects that have been reported with this fad diet have been dizziness, loss of energy, extreme fatigue and depression.

Source by John W Gibson

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