Congratulations to all of us, we have a new fast weight loss diet trend: cabbage soup diet
It is applied by eating a bowl of cabbage soup every day and adding vegetables, fruit, meat, etc. every day. , a list that claims to help you lose up to 8 kilos of weight per week. Let's not prejudge. First, let's examine what it is.
It is said that this diet is the Mayo Clinic diet. Firstly, the famous Mayo Clinic health center in Rochester, USA, has stated that they do not approve of any diet. Secondly, the cabbage soup diet is not even among the other diets mentioned by this hospital. It is supposedly a diet recommended by doctors to help patients undergoing heart surgery lose weight quickly. I guess no one knows better than doctors what kind of damage rapid weight loss does to the body. Sentences such as doctors giving you a reference or a recommendation from an important health institution are unfortunately just lies. No doctor would abuse the body of the patient he is about to operate on, so that the surgery would not fail. Lose weight by eating healthy and exercising at a pace that will not harm your health, as doctors always say.
Let's talk about the content of the diet. When you write on the internet, you will find how to do it on many pages. I won't explain it to you. Let's examine the calories and nutrients in it.
First of all, our main food is cabbage soup. What's in it: cabbage, onion, tomato, pepper, parsley, spices, tomato paste (if you want) None of these contain calories. The only feature that distinguishes vegetables from fruits is that vegetables do not contain fruit sugar like fruits. Vegetables consist of high amounts of fibre, plant carbohydrates, water, vitamins and minerals. Therefore, they have a very low calorie value due to the very few plant carbohydrates they contain, and since we spend those calories to break down the vegetables, they are zero. We accept calories.
Now, in order for this diet not to harm your health, it must contain at least 1200 calories for women and at least 1500 calories for men. Let's make an evaluation based on these values.
There are different foods that you add to it that change every day. One day you eat only fruit. We consider one portion of fruit to be approximately 50 calories, so women 24 servings of fruit, men should eat 30 servings of fruit, so that the diet is not unhealthy only in terms of CALORIES. I'm not even considering the nutritional content. It is no different from the single food diets we currently call harmful. Do you think these fruit portions I wrote are consumable sizes? I can almost hear you say no. J. So, what happens if all these fruits are not eaten that day? Of course, what we call harmful would be a low-calorie diet.
Let's look at the other days. On the second day, you have the right to eat only vegetables with soup. That evening, you also have a reward: boiled or baked potatoes with butter in the evening. In other words, since the foods you eat today are calorie-free, you are again following an unhealthy low-calorie diet.
The third day is soup, fruit and vegetable day. If you follow the diet exactly, you should see a loss of 2.5-3 kg on the scale after 3 days. I would like to give some more information here. A small but very important piece of information for us: In order to break down 1 g of fat tissue, you need to consume 7 minus calories.
3 kilos = 3000 g, that is, 3000 g x 7 calories = 21000 calories. You need to spend 3 days. 7000 calories per day. Considering that a normal human woman consumes 1800-2200 calories and a man consumes 2000-3000 calories, doesn't it seem impossible for you to spend 7000 calories a day? Of course it is impossible. Considering that the person becomes weak and moves less than normal due to consuming such low calories, it is really impossible. So what is this loss? Two-thirds of this loss occurs from the water mass in your body. Only 34% of the weight lost on low-calorie diets is from fat tissue. The rest is water and muscle loss. Is it healthy? of course no. body of water ; It is within and between cells and ensures healthy intercellular transmission. Especially the cells in muscle tissue have water in them, but there is no water in fat cells. It is fat tissue, not muscle tissue, that makes us look fat. In other words, it is the fat cells that need to weaken and shrink, not the muscle cells.
What happens if the muscle cells weaken? Muscle cells are not only found in the skeletal muscles that allow us to move. At the same time, our internal organs consist of muscle cells. Therefore, a weight loss aimed at reducing water mass, which we call unhealthy weight loss, may disrupt the functioning of your organs. It slows down your metabolic rate and causes you to gain more weight than you lost after the diet. This is the working mechanism of diets that are said to make you lose a lot of weight in a short time.
If you look at the other days of this diet, many different rules have been set, which is just a deception to prove to you how difficult the program is and how important it is to implement it. There are already a lot of rules in the beginning, this is just something to show seriousness. Don't fall into this trap. When you look at the diet program from beginning to end, it consists of amateur nonsense, as if it was written by a middle school child.
Let's come to the other days. One day, 300 - 600 g of meat, red meat and unlimited tomatoes were added to the soup. In our words, 300 – 600 g of meat is the size of 10 – 20 meatballs. It contains between 700 and 1400 calories. That aside, can you see more clearly the unhealthy nature of this program now? Today, soup is consumed only once. He said to drink 6 to 8 glasses of water throughout the day to cleanse the body of uric acid. How much he has thought about your health. Fill the stomach, which you have accustomed to eating only soups and vegetables and fruits for 3 days, with a difficult to digest food such as meat. Let's see how long you can endure the pain. The human body needs 2 liters (10 glasses) of water daily to function healthily. I wonder if 8 glasses of water is not enough to cleanse this uric acid? (the nonsense never ends)
If you research a little more, you will see: user comments. I especially recommend you read these. There are people who start a passion and even start a blog for it. After all, everyone who tries it sees that drinking the same soup every day, bowl after bowl, is extremely boring and even nauseating. Are you looking for those who barely followed this diet and could not lose enough weight? Are you looking for those who implemented it half-heartedly and said they got some results, or do you look for those who became weak and sick from eating low calories? They are all there.
There is almost no protein intake in 5 out of 7 days of this diet. . Low protein diets increase muscle tissue loss. The entire diet excludes carbohydrates and fats from grains. Bile contains enzymes needed for fat and carbohydrate digestion. This style is lean and fall When low-carbohydrate diets are used, gallstones may form due to bile accumulation in the gallbladder, as there is no need for bile in the gallbladder. Research shows that gallstones are more common in individuals who follow a low-calorie diet for a long time.
Another issue is that the diet contains a very high amount of fiber. This much fiber causes gas and bloating, pain and cramps in the intestines. This alone is enough to quit the diet.
My advice to you: nothing comes easy, stop dreaming of achieving results without effort. I know that there are so many people, companies, products, tools, methods, medicines, herbs, roots, etc. advertising around to deceive you. You get caught by someone while running away from someone. This is the aim of these deceivers. The people among you who are fooled get caught in their networks and earn money for them.
Today it's a cabbage soup diet, tomorrow maybe it's a roasted eggplant diet. Nothing actually changes.
Losing weight in a healthy way is possible by losing fat tissue. Possible figures for fat tissue loss are nutrition programs that can result in a loss of 1 kg per week. More happens with muscle and water loss. To lose fat tissue, you need to follow a healthy nutrition program in a disciplined manner, drink at least 2 liters of water a day and do sports appropriate to your physical condition. Any other method, medication, etc. will harm your health. Don't be fooled, don't play with your health.
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