Article: A bad diet with phony credentials.(cabbage soup diet)(Brief Article)

It's not the stick-to-your-ribs ambrosia your grandmother might have made. But that's the point of the "cabbage soup diet," a quick-weight-loss plan that has poured from photocopiers, fax machines and publications such as USA Today in recent months. Many versions of this anonymously created, vegetable-centered diet--some three days long, some a week, some with steak, some without--bear the imprimatur of the American Heart Association or the Cleveland Clinic. Nutrition experts from the heart association and the ...

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