The Sacred Heart Diet is a seven-day soup-based diet plan that helps people lose up to ten pounds in a week. It recommends a different vegetable-based soup or broth each day and prohibits bread, fried foods, alcohol, and carbonated drinks. The diet is effective in the short term but not recommended for long-term use.
The Sacred Heart Diet, or Cabbage Soup Diet, is a seven-day soup-based diet plan that helps adherents lose up to ten pounds in a week. The diet plan recommends a different vegetable-based soup or broth each day and this will form the dieter’s main source of food intake. The diet regimen prohibits foods such as bread, fried foods, alcohol, and carbonated drinks. The soup recipe changes by the day and gradually increases its caloric content with a new addition of their specially selected Sacred Heart Diet ingredients.
The provenance of the Sacred Heart Diet is uncertain, with some claiming that it was the brainchild of Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital that was formulated to accelerate weight loss for patients prior to undergoing surgery; however, the hospital disputes this claim. Regardless of its origins, the Sacred Heart Diet has health benefits, especially in the short term. On the one hand, it cleanses the body and purges it of impurities and foreign bodies. With its high consumption of vegetables and fruits and avoiding refined sugars, it is an effective way to lose weight quickly, eat healthy and feel full.
A typical seven-day Sacred Heart Diet plan will mean that the week usually starts with the basic Sacred Heart Diet soup accompanied by the obligatory fruit (anything except bananas); on the second day, fruit is taken off the menu and soup is eaten with baked potato and butter; day three, dieters should forgo the baked potato, but plenty of soup and fruits are recommended; day four, Sacred Heart Diet soup, lots of skimmed milk, and three bananas; day five, ten to twenty ounces (280 to 560 grams) of beef or chicken accompanied by canned vegetables and soup; day six, the soup along with unlimited amounts of beef or chicken; day seven, soup, brown rice, an unsweetened fruit drink, and vegetables.
The Sacred Heart diet is considered a good quick-fix diet, with people being able to lose weight in a relatively short period of time. However, the limited range of foods on the regimen means that it is not a good diet in the long term. The weight will inevitably come back once the diet is stopped. Also, a high and rapid intake of fruits and vegetables can cause stomach cramps if the dieter is not used to the amounts involved.
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