Whats This Diet Called HCG?

     You've heard of all the fad diets over the years - the ones in which you only eat cabbage soup or the ones where you only eat fatty meats and little to no carbohydrates. South Beach. Atkins. You've tried them all. They may not have worked for you so why not try the newest diet trend? It's called the HCG diet. The difference with this wildly popular diet is that it involves much more than simply restricting your diet. It incorporates an injection into the diet plan as well.

Let's explore this new diet craze. The HCG diets takes about 40 days and includes two elements. The first one is the use of the HCG hormone, which is naturally found in pregnant women. You'll need two injections of this hormone daily. The second element, of course, involves restricting your calorie intake to just 500 calories a day. You'll definitely see a dramatic difference in your weight. Many who undergo this weight-loss treatment experienced losing anywhere between 30 pounds and 50 pounds in the 40-day cycle. The important thing to keep in mind with this diet is that the patient must be supervised closely by a doctor.

If you've been pregnant, you probably know all about the HCG, or human chorionic gonadotropin, hormone. It was discovered in the 1920s by researchers who noticed it in the urine of pregnant women. It is now used to detect pregnancy by modern-day home pregnancy tests. The hormone is produced to make sure fetuses get the calories and nutrients they need apart from the mother's caloric intake.

The human body has an innate craving to maximize the calories we ingest and store fat for future times when we might possibly not get enough. That explains why most everyone often craves high-calorie, fatty foods. The problem is: we don't live in times when fatty, high-caloric foods are scarce, so the storing of fat is not necessary, yet our bodies do it anyway in the hips, legs, abdomen, and buttocks. But while pregnant, the HCG hormone mobilizes and redistributes the fat from those problem areas and overrides cravings to ensure the baby's growth.

As with any diet, there are risks but there are a few more when you have an extreme weight-loss program like the HCG diet. You should be under the care of a medical professional when going on this diet. One of the problems with this diet is that people aren't seeking the care of a medical professional and are buying their HCG hormones from unlicensed, unregulated Internet sources. And the medical community is actually split on this weight-loss program. Some believe you don't have to have the HCG hormone in order to lose weight dramatically.

While there can be problems with this diet, the benefits can far outweigh the drawbacks. The HCG diet can be a highly effective solution for weight loss when you're under the care of a medical professional. Dieters have reported an almost immediate loss in weight with the program.

There's no doubt that the HCG diet gets dramatic results. The concerns from the medical community, however, should be taken into consideration before deciding whether to go on this popular diet. The key is to talk with your doctor about this diet and make sure he or she oversees your progress.

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