Word on the street is ‘yes’. You only have to do a search for the HCG diet online and you will fine all the information you need to confirm it, and enough videos on YouTube to support it, including some good old fashion before and afters. And there’s nothing more powerful in the world of dieting than the solid proof of a before and after.
And it’s this hi-drama, melodramatic, miracle cure weight loss mentality that draws people to programmes like the HCG diet. The idea that you, yes you, can trick your body into burning fat instead of muscle and cheat your body into losing weight faster have people buying into the same old sell – ‘imagine losing a pound a day but never feeling hungry’, ‘lose all the weight you want without exercising’ – please people, give me a break!
What’s even more entertaining is that this diet sets the overweight person up as a victim to begin with. In Dr Simeon’s 1959 book ‘Pounds and Inches’, the HCG diet’s creator clearly states that it’s not your fault you are fat, you are actually suffering from ‘abnormal functioning’, a ‘disorder of certain regulatory mechanisms’, and, if you suffer from this disorder, you will get fat regardless of whether you eat excessively, normally or less than normally. Thus, you have failed not because you have not been able to curb your appetite or say no to fat and sugar, but because mother nature’s system is at fault and you my friend have lucked out.
Along comes Kevin Trudeau’s 2007 book ‘The Weight-Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You To Know About’ which floats and promotes the HCG diet plan and re-enforces your victim status by explaining that drug companies do not want to use the HCG diet protocol to ‘cure’ obesity because, among other “Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About”, this successful system of weight loss would send them out of business. So speaks the man who continues to profit illegally from selling false health claims to sick people.
Not surprisingly, the American Medical Association and the Food and Drug Administration have discredited the use of HCG for weight loss. Above all, clinical research trials published by the Journal of the American Medical Association and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition have proven that the HCG hormone is ineffective as a weight loss support aid, clearly stating alongside a 500 calorie diet that the HCG hormone “does not appear to enhance the effectiveness of a rigidly imposed regimen for weight reduction.” Which is where the strict 500 calorie a day diet comes in. Or didn’t I mention that?
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