HCG diet is a chemical found in a woman’s body when pregnant. One of the functions is that it guarantees that the growing fetus receives the appropriate calories and nutrients needed. It was also found to be helpful when taken by boys experiencing delays in adolescence or genital development. Dr. A.T.W. Simeons noticed that boys that were treated with HCG lost excess weight and ate much less. He then shifted its potential to diets. With two decades of research to back him up he published a piece on its effects, and developed a diet with it.
A healthy eating plan for weight loss is not as restricted as some of the plans mentioned above. There is a diet that includes eating a cabbage soup each day. Not only does this not work, it can have some pretty unpleasant side effects for the dieter and those that spend time around the dieter. This diet gets boring very quickly and most people cannot stay the side effects and also the boredom of eating the same thing each day. Instead, you want a plan that offers different foods each day and for each meal, as long as they are healthy choices.
In the HCG diet you take an amount of drops under the tongue daily for so many days, others opt to do injections. Aside from the HCG drops, dieter’s are advised to lower the calorie intake to just 500 calories a day after the third dose. However the treatment must stop when the excess weight is lost, since HCG only works on stored fat. Although the diet seems to accomplish its objective, it has many side effects; such as headaches, blood clots, depression and constipation.
