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By antiaging37
#27123 We all want our bodies to feel and look great. Our weight has a huge impact on our self esteem. We all are struggle with our weight for our whole life. We have been let down by different weight loss programs and exercise plans throughout our struggle.

There is a long history of drug treatments for obesity which is indeed strewn with different catastrophes. Recent studies about the genetic and metabolic control system of the body weight helps in developing pharmacological agents for obesity. However, the scarcity of available medications reflects the challenges of controlling human appetite. Dr A. T. Simeons, a British physician, contented more than 50 years ago that HCG injections would really work for every body.
He claimed that HCG would mobilize stored fat; suppress appetite; and redistribute fat from the waist, hips, and thighs (Simeons ATW. 1954).
Dr Simeons, claimed that HCG injections would enable a person to subsist very comfortably on a 500-calorie- a- day diet. However, there is no scientific evidence yet reported to support this theory. At one time, HCG diet was considered as the most effective and widespread obesity medication in the United States. HCG is also marketed in sublingual forms.
HCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin) is a naturally occurring hormone in the human body and can now be artificially synthesized for medical purposes. HCG is prevalent in pregnant females and is most often administered for the treatment of infertility. There have been several researches done to test the effectiveness of HCG as a weight loss drug.
It has been evaluated that some patients are taking this medication with a doctor's advice but it is quite interesting to note that these doctors also advise these patients a strict low-calorie diet, so HCG is only one part of this mix. So its hard to determine the exact role of HCG in weight control.
HCG has not been demonstrated to be effective adjunctive therapy in the treatment of obesity. There is no substantial evidence that it increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction, that it causes a more attractive or "normal" distribution of fat, or that it decreases the hunger and discomfort associated with calorie-restricted diets ( FDA.1975).
In actual theory presented by Dr Simeons, the HCG hormone diet is administered to suppress hunger and its regular use would trigger your body fat to be your fuel for your daily activities. Most HCG diets restrict dieters to use only 500 calories a day along with HCG injection or drops.
Samuel Klein of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis agrees: "Data from most randomized controlled trials show that HCG is no better than placebo in achieving weight loss or reducing hunger."
If you are planning an HCG diet plan or injecting HCG, I highly recommend that do it with a doctor’s advice only. Taking any type of hormone therapy on your own is risky and dangerous, even if they are common in the market and claimed to be safe for regular use.

Reference:

Simeons ATW. The action of chorionic gonadotrophin in the obese. Lancet 2:946-947, 1954.
By loveyourlife
#27143 The problem with HCG is that is doesn't cause weight loss--it prevents starvation. HCG protects pregnant women and their fetuses from starving in cases where food is scarce or the mother's morning sickness is too bad for her to eat. The way that it does this is that it makes it easier for the body to break down fat stores and turn them into energy. Normally, if a person loses 10 lbs from calorie reduction and exercise, about 3 of those lbs will be muscle and 7 will be fat. Higher HCG levels protect the muscle by making it easier for the body to burn purely fat.

That's why HCG has to be taken in conjunction with a super-low calorie diet. It is the low calories that causes the weight loss--the HCG just helps make sure you are burning all fat and not muscle while you starve yourself.
By antiaging37
#27335 The HCG diet allows the use of almost all condiments and seasonings like salt,vinegar and pepper with the exception of sugar,butter, and mayonnaise. Tea, coffee and water are allowed, as well as the juice of one lemon. Artificial sweeteners are suggested alternatives, instead of adding sugar to sweeten drinks. All vegetables are recommended like cabbage,celery,asparagus, spinach, and cucumbers. These foods have less than a hundred calories but with adequate nourishment. Lean meats like shrimp and chicken are the main sources of protein in this diet.
By HealthandFitness
#27545 Doctors strongly advise against a women ever going below 1100 cals a day or a man going below 1400 cals a day. Even a person in a coma requires 600 cals a day to maintain normal functioning of the automatic processes like breathing and circulating blood!
By loveyourlife
#28760 This is a weird diet. By the way--they get the HCG from the urine of pregnant horses. You didn't think they harvested it from pregnant women, did you?
This also causes a huge problem: keeping the horses pregnant results in thousands of unwanted baby horses that are either killed or often neglected until they starve to death. It's very sad.