1 medium head cabbage
2 large green peppers
1 bunch celery
6 to 8 carrots
6 beef cubes
2 medium onions
2 large cans tomatoes
Chop all ingredients. Add beef cubes. Add water to cover vegetables. Cook 30 to 40 minutes or until tender. This is a soup to lower blood pressure and to lose weight.
Remember: This diet should only be followed for 7 days at a time, with at least two weeks in between.
Day One:
Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas). Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day. For your beverages; unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.
Day Two:
Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.
Day Three:
Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you want. No Baked Potato.
Day Four:
Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup. This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.
Day Five:
Beef And Tomatoes: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomatoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for the beef; for one of the beef days (but not both).
Day Six:
Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart’s content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.
Day Seven:
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Again stuff, stuff, stuff yourself. Be sure to eat your soup at least once this day.
December 11, 2013 at 11:43 am
I used Dr. Cooper’s diet 30 years ago, but it wasn’t like this. It advocated a low-calorie diet be eaten, augmented by this soup to ward off hunger between meals. The only cheat I used was I would sometimes put some lo-cal sour cream (there was no “low fat” back in the day) in my soup. Also, I added Italian spice mix, basil, and garlic to make a lo-cal minestrone. The diet worked great, as is, and I’ve always returned to it. I don’t know about all this only veggies, only fruit, whatever; it smacks of trendy goofiness to me but…whatever. The old diet could be used as long as you wanted to lose weight and was easy to share with the family. No special cooking.
December 11, 2013 at 2:04 pm
My oldest sister swore by this. She always had a pot of this on her stove. She loved it. I can’t say that it helped her weight any, I only printed it so that it could be referenced somewhere. Like I said, more for reference than anything. Somethings are very hard to find, once out of print. My she could eat this stuff almost every day, some days she did just that. She used a lot of left overs for this. I had it a few times but the smell was a bit harsh.
Thanks for your comment,
Sheila
May 6, 2015 at 12:16 pm
I lived in Atlanta in the 80’s and Dr. Cooper was my doctor. I lost 35 lbs. in one month eating this soup & eating Malsovit bread (The Dutch Diet). That meant 7 slices of bread a day… for a bread lover, not-too-hard. haha Lived by the river so walked 3 miles a day. Loved that soup!!! :-)