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The weight loss industry is rife with fads, and every other day, I see a new fad coming up. Even more surprising than the rapid innovation of fads is how easily the common people are accepting these fads without thinking twice abut possible repercussions. People hope to lose weight quickly with the help of these fad products, but if you ask me, I never believe in fads, and never will! In this article I will tell you about the latest weight loss fad called HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) and how far it can help you lose weight.

To start with, if you are wondering that HCG is just another drug, you are dead wrong! It is just a hormone which is already present in the human body. The hormone is found in abundance in the body of pregnant women. This is the reason why any woman who tests positive for it is confirmed to be pregnant.

People didn’t know about the benefits of HCG on overweight people until a notorious author called Kevin Trudeau came up with a book that claimed that HCG can indeed help people lose weight. For those who don’t know, Kevin Trudeau has already spent a considerable amount of time in jail for several violations of FTC guidelines. While Kevin Trudeau claims that HCG is a miraculous hormone that can help people lose weight quicker than any other weight loss supplement, there is no medical or scientific evidence that backs up this claim. Not even the manufacturers who produce a synthesized version of this hormone claim that it is beneficial for obese people. It is only a handful of doctors and experts who are claiming that they have proof of its effectiveness on overweight people.

For almost forty years, several tests and studies were done on HCG to prove the validity of these claims. A lot of research was done regarding the effectiveness of HCG on overweight people. No study or research done till date has been able to prove that HCG indeed helps one lose weight. So how can the doctors claim the opposite?

Well, in case you don’t know, if you opt for HCG treatment, doctors will also ask you to follow a low calorie diet. So whether it is the low calorie diet or the HCG hormone that is helping people to lose weight is not clear.
Last but not the least, HCG has been banned in the US long time ago. If you want to purchase synthetic HCG, you will need to purchase it either from the black market or import it from another country, both of which can prove very costly for you!

If you take my advice, I would recommend that until the effectiveness of HCG is fully proved, you should just follow the old method of healthy food plan and exercises. Health food plan doesn’t mean that you will have to diet; just eat lost of raw vegetables and fruits, and drink lots of water, and make sure that you avoid the fatty and junk foods as much as possible! This is a proven way to weight loss success.

Low calorie diets simply don’t work for a variedly of reasons to start with they take a lot of will power and most people give up after a few days more fundamentally the whole science of low calories is fatally flawed.

On the surface the reasoning behind low calorie diets looks sound if you eat less calories your body must by default burn the it stored fat supply for energy. Now this is basic true and this simplistic scientific reasoning is what has kept the low calorie so popular for so long.

There are two things these over simplified diets overlook:

1. The body has it’s own in built intelligence and survival mechanisms which have evolved over millions of years and cannot become over come easy by modern science.

If your calorific intake drops too low say below 1000 calories for the average man and 1000 for the average woman a emergency survival mechanism click into to gear. Your body metabolism begins to slow so less Calories are needed, making weight loss, that much more difficult.

When you return to a more normal regime the body begin second more sophisticated long term survival strategy . In anticipation of future food shortage it begins to lay down surplus calories as fat. Remember the first survival mechanism has already slowed the metabolism so the body requires less calories.

The combination of this to fact make it very difficult to lose weight on a low calorie diet and even more difficult to keep it off.

2. Most low calorie and in particular mono food diets don’t provide a balance diet and lack essential nutrients the body needs for vital functions.

This leads to food craving as the body cries out for what it needs making it very hard to stick with the diet, this is one of the reason so much will power is required for most low calorie diets.

If you stick with the program your body will lack the nutrients it needs for good health and weight lose. Your body and especially your liver needs certain nutrients including some essential fats (often do present in low fat diets) in order burn the stored fat in your body. If this nutrients are not present in enough quantities stored body fat will not be lose.

If calorie intake is lower and the body cannot draw on the energy stored in your fat cell, due to poor nutrition, the result will almost permanent fatigue.

Low calorie and mono calorie diets can be extremely dangerous over a long period of time due to nutritional deficient.

If you have tried low calorie diets and failed before I hope you now understand and relies you were not to blame. It’s important to understand it was the reasoning, the flawed science behind the diet that was to blame not you. Once you understand this you regain your confidence and take new heart as you read the rest of this book and you it as the catalyze to a new future.