The Cabbage Soup Diet: Quick Fix or Health Risk?

The Cabbage Soup Diet: Quick Fix or Health Risk?

In the last few years, TikTokers have been touting the benefits of a “cabbage soup detox” or the “cabbage soup challenge.” In videos with hundreds of thousands of views, social media users claim that eating only cabbage soup for days or weeks on end has helped them lose significant amounts of weight in a short amount of time. But this approach to weight loss is far from new. In fact, the cabbage soup diet has likely been around since the 1950s, …