Advantages of the Cabbage Soup Diet

The major advantage of this diet is that it is effective over a very short time period.

This means that you do not have to struggle for months; days is all it takes.

Another advantage, a big one, is that there is no limitation on the amount of food prescribed in the diet – you can eat as much of these as you want, as many times a day as you want.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages are there too.

First off, there is a fair chance that you will lose body weight through loss of water and muscle tissue, not the fat!

Secondly, you would need to plan this through very carefully and the diet itself could involve countless trips to the market to replenish your stock of diet food. Besides, though the ingredients themselves are very nourishing, the diet on the whole lacks in adequate amounts of all required nutrients – carbohydrates, proteins, and also fat.

Also, it is not at all advisable for people with an already existing medical condition like diabetes, or a pre-existing gastric condition.