Talk:Cabbage soup diet

Incomplete Description and Factual Error
The description on this page gives the impression the diet is almost completely, if not completely, soup based and fails to include the numerous ingredients that are in the soup besides cabbage and the protocol that is to be followed over seven days.

The description also contains a factual error in regard to protein. It is not the case that there is nearly zero protein in the diet. In fact, the original diet calls for protein, including several servings of beef and a large amount of milk, on three of the seven days.

Aside from a head of cabbage and broth, the soup contains large amounts of onions, carrots, celery, bell pepper, and tomatoes. The batch of soup is made at the beginning of the week, and the dieter eats as much of it as they want each day ALONG WITH specific foods for that day. Each day is different from the others. 2603:6081:8201:8B7C:227:68E2:6830:315F (talk) 16:07, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Removed from article
Re I've not looked into the details of the history of this content: In addition, the recipe for the soup as often given has an extremely high sodium content, usually to make it palatable, and the diet provides practically zero protein for several days at a time. Many people report feeling weak and light-headed during the course of the diet. On a practical level, the most common forms of the soup recipe have been criticized as being bland, though spicy variations have appeared. Even so, the blandness of the soup means that few manage the entire seven days, and often report feeling nauseated whenever they smell the soup toward the end of the week-long diet. It has also been noted that flatulence is a common side effect of the diet. --Hipal (talk) 22:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Potential refs
There are a number of similar articles like these. I expect we could expand this article significantly with a few of them and the references they use. --Hipal (talk) 00:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/cabbage-soup-diet.aspx
 * I'm not sure how reliable this source is, but some of the references it uses look far better. --Hipal (talk) 00:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cabbage-soup-diet#summary
 * Similar to the Everydayhealth article. --Hipal (talk) 00:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)