The Cabbage Soup Diet: An American Samizdat
The Cabbage Soup Diet An American Samizdat In the Soviet era dissident publication of banned and underground material was circulated as hand-made documents that came to be known as samizdat ( самиздат). In America a fad diet of long standing circulates the same way. Xerox copies of copies, carbon copies, hand copied, and now, of course, via the Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp and other social media. The diet has been variously attributed to the Mayo Clinic, Sacred Heart Hospital, the US military, the Miami Heart Institute, and even Dolly Parton; none are true. I have been unable to find its true origin, but it will circulate long after I'm gone. Don't take this posting as an endorsement, but the diet is an effective diuretic.