More than 50 years ago, Dr. Albert T. Simeons, a British-born physician, contended that HCG injections would enable dieters to subsist comfortably on a 500-calorie-a-day diet. He claimed that HCG would mobilize stored fat; suppress appetite; and redistribute fat from the waist, hips, and thighs. He spent years studying patients suffering from obesity; which became the foundation of a weight loss program that used a medication called HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin), a hormone produced when a woman becomes pregnant. Dr. Simeons theorized that if HCG can utilize the body’s own fat reserves for nutrition to the body in periods of deprivation, then a small amount administered daily in non-pregnant women and men may assist in weight loss.
There is no scientific evidence to support these claims. Moreover, a 500-calorie (semi-starvation) diet is likely to result in loss of protein from vital organs, and HCG can cause other adverse effects. Dr. Simeon’s HCG diet has become a phenomenon among those who desire to lose weight quickly and efficiently. The news of how the HCG diet is helping overweight and obese people lose fat and inches without extensive amounts of strenuous exercise is all over the web, on television, in newspapers and magazines.
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