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Article: The Cabbage Soup Diet: Does It Really Work?
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 1996
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On Day Four of Florida Smith's weeklong diet, she wasn't exactly
looking forward to eating only cabbage-vegetable soup, bananas and
skim milk.
The first day, she was allowed to eat only the soup and fruit
(no bananas).
Day Two was soup and vegetables only (with a big baked potato
and butter for dinner). Day Three was soup, fruit and vegetables
(but no potato).
For a week, she wasn't allowed to eat bread or drink alcohol or
carbonated drinks. But if she didn't cheat, the diet's (unknown)
authors promised, Smith would lose 10 to 17 pounds.
Sound familiar?
Oh yeah, it's that diet. The one you probably tried 15 years
ago or your co-worker's mother-in-law tried last year. Copies of the ...