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Article: The Cabbage Soup Diet; Why, Oh Why, Do People Keep Falling for It? Well . . .
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 21, 1996
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It's Day One of the diet that just won't die. And like people
all over the country, I have embarked on an eating plan that goes
against all current nutritional knowledge -- and my better judgment
-- but promises astonishing weight loss. Ten to 17 pounds in a week.
Right.
Now I know this is impossible, not to mention undesirable. But
the Cabbage Soup fat-burning diet is the current regimen of choice
-- Cosmo featured it approvingly last month, GQ cautiously this
month. So, in the name of research, of discovering whether the soup
diet is a miracle or a mirage, I thought I'd give it a try.
In fact, the diet is not new. It's been around for at least 15
years -- many of the photocopies ...
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