Cabbage soup does not sound like a delicious meal to many of us (hint: it i, with the right spices), but how about using it as a detox for your body? Sounds ridiculous, right?

There is a 'cabbage detox diet,' and it takes seven days to purge the nastiness from your innards if you follow it correctly. It sounds unhealthy to eat cabbage in several forms for an entire week (only cabbage), but having done this one in the past, I can say that it works. You can guess on how the results show up, okay?

But, it has downsides as well, ones that you need to be aware of if you decide to pursue it sometime near. First off -- the blandness of the cabbage itself (this is where spices come in). More? How's this:

• Be prepared for gas.
• Requires will power.
• Lacks good nutrition
• High in salt (unless you sub in non-salt spices).
• Not a long-term answer -- after all, it's a detox, not a diet change.

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It's said time and time again: Fad dieting is a no-no. And yet someone must be buying into the fads because their still around and their makers are raking in the cash. So in case you're still not convinced, Fitsugar has put together a list of the 5 most dangerous things about fad diets:

• Lack of a balanced diet, or cutting out food groups all together, will lead to nutritional deficiencies
• The lack of variety causes boredom, and based on my experiences with friends on fad diets, extreme moodiness -- yikes!
• The emphasis is on the diet -- it doesn't account for how important exercise is'
• Severely restricting food intake can make it harder to maintain healthy eating habits afterwards.
  
• Many are based on unsubstantiated claims that can prove to be useless or even harmful.
  

What's more, long-term weight-loss requires a full lifestyle change, and that's not likely to come from following the cabbage soup diet for a few weeks. It's better to make small, healthy changes in your everyday life -- changes that you can live with in the long-run.

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Celebrities are under pressure to be super-thin for movie roles, appearances and more. They try some pretty crazy weight-loss gimmicks to lose weight, while all seem either unhealthy, unnatural or downright uncomfortable. AOL Body has put together this list of the wackiest diet ideas:

• Martha's Vineyard Diet
• Cabbage Soup Diet
• The Lemonade Diet
  
• Blood Type Diet
  
• Facial Analysis Diet: Your diet is determined by an analysis of your skin
• Grapefruit Diet: This involves eating half a grapefruit before every meal
  
• Fat Flush Diet: This mostly-water diet should be called the water-flush diet -- that's all it does
• Coconut Diet: Based on the belief that coconut boost metabolism, you eat a lot of coconut on this plan.
  
• Cardio-free diet
• Any diet using diet pills

Come on, fess up -- have you tried any of these? Most of us have

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I am so tired of fad diets. Ever since my mom brought home a box of the ill-named AYDS candies in the early 80's I've always been suspicious of fad diets. They never seem to work. Ever. Or, if they do, it's for the short term only. So why do folks insist on taking up every new fad diet out there like it's the next best thing? Is there, in fact, a fad diet--any fad diet--that actually works?

Well, America, we may finally be on to something that works. It does not require eating hordes of a particular vegetable, say cabbage (a la the cabbage soup diet--remember that one?) or restricting certain food groups like the guilt-inducing no-carb high protein diets that chastise for even thinking about a dinner roll. It does not require the purchase of any pills or medications. The only thing that is required is that we find a way to cut 50 calories a meal from our diets.

The concept is a simple one, involving our old friend math. According to a recent article by Karen Collins, R. D. who writes for the American Institute for Cancer Research, if we cut just 50 calories from each meal we'd be cutting 150 calories a day. Considering a pound is 3500 calories, it would take just under 24 days to lost a pound (3500 / 150 calories a day = 23.33 days).

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Do you remember the cabbage soup diet? Well, it's baaaack -- this time in pill form. The makers of said pill are claiming that the pill is "seven times more effective, three times more affordable, and 100 times more hunger-proof" than the original version of the diet, though how they came up with these numbers is beyond me. The original diet has been regarded as effective but hard to stick to because it limits what you eat quite a bit and gets boring quickly.

So how does it work? Basically, you have a glass of water and two pills 30 minutes before every meal. Supposedly, that will fill you up quite a bit and you will eat less, or nothing at all. Apparently, the capsules equal six bowls of soup. Their website doesn't seem to specify what you can eat besides the pills and frankly, I'm not convinced that two pills and a glass of water is going to fill me up.

What do you think?

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