Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Sustaining The Actual Facts About The HCG Diet

By Supreet Y Sandhu


Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, commonly known as hCG diet, is nothing new in the world of dieting. Also known as the hormone of pregnancy, this solution was used for diets in the mid-twentieth century. It has resurged in modern times as one of the latest fads in America, where a high population of people want to lose weight. Unlike other fad diets, the positive truth about the hCG diet: it works.

Although there are many claims about its effectiveness in this realm, the FDA does not approve of it being used for weight loss. It was created as a way to treat infertile women. The FTC has placed tough regulations on marketing for the drug. Likewise, physicians cannot advertise this drug for weight loss. Still, it is widely accessible for this use.

Most of the controversy of this drug being used for weight loss is relevant to the high restrictions it places on calorie intake and the potentially harmful side effects. There has been an ongoing obsession and hype in the American society over fast and easy weight-loss treatments. This only adds fuel to the flame and lessens the potential for hCG to actually be used as an effective and healthy option for weight management.

In the 1950s, Doctor Albert T W Simeons, an obesity researcher, published his studies on the effectiveness of hCG as a supplement for weight loss along with a restrictive diet. It did not gain as much attraction as expected and fell out of popularity with the 1960s. Doctor Simeons said the Gonadotropin works by resetting the hypothalamus in the brain and switching up how the body burns its fat.

In the research he performed, he noted that there are three types of fat in the body: structural, abnormal and reserve. Reserve is that which is used as nutritional income and fuels the muscles, and regulates body temperature. Structural is what fills the gaps and offers protection to organs and bones. Abnormal kind is meant to be the reserves but gets trapped. Simeons thought that the hCG was capable of unlocking the ability of the body to burn the trapped fat.

The regime calls for people to take the supplement and consume a diet of only 500 calories. In this stage, people should not experience pains from hunger because the body will revert to the calories in the fat that is trapped. It is recommended that this stage not extend beyond 40 days.

This diet can act as a healthy and successful way to lose weight. Still, the right steps must be done and counsel from a professional physician is a must. Patients must be screened and monitored from the very beginning. The beginning steps will be closely tracked by the doctor and transitioning to normal eating habits and activity should be done slowly. The diet does not instill good eating habits in people, so behavioral modification must be done guaranteeing the weight does not come back.

Those who take on this diet may find success. In addition to looking better, they will reduce the number of ailments associated with this disease, such as: high blood pressure, blood glucose levels, cholesterol levels and C-reactive protein. The positive truth about the hCG diet: it can be effective treatment for weight loss if it is done by dedicated individuals and regulated by trained professionals.




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