Let’s face it, the minestrone diet continues to be very popular.

It is an evergreen, and not just because there are vegetables on the menu. I’ve been hearing about it since the nineties, so for twenty years it has been offered to us in all its different ways (which, said for a minestrone, makes no sense).

Like all single-issue diets, the minestrone diet is a diet that rages in women’s magazines.

All diets that proceed by insisting on just one food are clearly not healthy diets.
You certainly don’t learn to eat well or eat better.
At the most, you eat minestrone for a week or two, but then, as I have explained elsewhere, once the weight drops you calmly return to your eating habits. Those that nevertheless made you fat.

As with any monothematic diet, the minestrone diet is also popular thanks to word of mouth. Of the many women I have met in recent years, most had done the minestrone diet at least once, but with poor results.

MINESTRONE DIET: THE DISADVANTAGES

1. The minestrone diet is fine if you want to fill up on cooked vegetables for a week and purify yourself of other foods. But diuresis is not taken for granted, on the contrary, in the early days, especially if you are not used to drinking a lot (and who is) it is difficult to dispose of the liquids of the vegetables boiled together, with consequent intestinal disorders, bloating, colic.
   Especially those suffering from irritable bowel should avoid it.
2. The minestrone diet, born as a hospital diet, has a sure detoxifying effect, but does not provide your body with the right daily dose of protein, because in addition to minestrone and a little fruit, you don’t eat anything else for the first three / four days , and then add some chicken and fruit to the yogurt menu.
   Weight loss is assured, as the body is emptied of muscle mass and frequent colic occurs.
   However, the slimming effect is apparent and resembles that of a laxative.