What is a Soup Diet?
A soup diet requires that you take your meals as soup. This can work on a couple of basic principals:
Firstly, recent Danish research has concluded that taking a lot of fluid with your carbohydrates, proteins and fats (your food) can slow down digestion and leave you feeling fuller, longer. This results in less hunger and craving for food and therefore, less eating. The important point here is that it is not enough to just drink water with your meal. If you do this, the water flows straight through to the gut and is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, having no digestion slowing effect at all.
For water to slow down digestion and prolong the feeling of fullness, it must be incorporated in the cooked food. Hence a diet of soup.
Secondly, the earliest soup diets, such as the original Cabbage Soup Diet, were basically a very low calorie diet; the Cabbage Soup Diet works, temporarily, by cutting daily calories to near-starvation levels to produce rapid weight loss. It was thought that cabbage had weight-loss properties but it is more likely to actually work on the principle outlined above, with regular soup consumption staving off hunger pangs.
Unlike a detox diet, the soup diet does not aim to cleanse and purify the body. Neither is it a medical diet such as the gluten free diet or one for the treatment of diabetes. It’s a straight weight-loss diet with no other aim or purpose but to help the person shed weight.
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