Choosing the hCG Diet

In our culture today, we are obsessed with appearances, which naturally extends to regulating weight. Countless media images surround us of thin supermodels and buff male models, while the obesity crisis in America grows: the disconnect is obvious. We want what we cannot have and are willing to go to whatever lengths to achieve it: the perfect body. The diet industry is huge in this country with names as varied as Atkins, South Beach, and the like, but nothing seems to really work. However, promising new studies have shown diets like the hCG diet can present real solutions.

We’re skeptical when we hear about new diets now, especially after trying so many unsuccessfully. Sure, you’ve dropped a pants size or two, but within a few months, the pounds have always slowly snuck up again. Of course we know how we’re supposed to diet, monitoring our portions, making good, healthy choices, and going to the gym for cardio and weights. We know we’ll loose a pound or two a week, slowly and steadily. But, our culture is one that begs results and quick.

However, some scientists now believe that diet and exercise may not be as effective as other diets like HCG for some people.

The hCG diet stands for human chorionic gonadotropin and it is a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women. It is said to help suppress feelings of hunger and burn through fat instead of muscle (a common problem of low-calorie diets where muscle is often burned).

Coupled with injections of the hormone or serum drops placed under the tongue daily, dieters are meant to eat a very low calorie diet. While most men need approximately 2,500 calories a day and most women need 2,000 calories a day (and more if they are active), and are not advised to go below 1,200 calories even when dieting, dieters on the hCG diet will eat only 500 calories a day. Normally this can be very dangerous and eating such low amounts of calories is often associated with eating disordered behavior and diseases like anorexia that put the body into starvation mode and do not allow it to burn excess calories. However, scientists claim, when coupled with hCG hormones, many of these adverse consequences can be avoided.

The hCG diet’s benefits however are still up for some debate. Whether the weight loss is actually caused by the injections or serums is debatable-when someone eats only 500 calories a day of mainly unprocessed foods, they are bound to loose weight one way or another.

The FDA has heeded their warning and has banned any hCG products in the United States.

Despite this, dieters should keep their eyes and ears alert to see if the FDA lifts this ban on the HCG diet-it may be what they’re looking for.

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