The HCG Diet Scam

Leave it to the greed driven American Medical industry slime to sell more worthless and dangerous snake oil. There are a lot of diet scams out there. One of the biggest are Doctor Atkins' Weight Loss Revolution and Doctor Agatston's  South Beach but the new scam is HCG. This is another buy your way thin scam that preys on the desperation and ignorance of fat women. Here is what the Mayo Clinic has to say about this scam:

Does the HCG diet work — and is it safe?

Answer

from Jennifer K. Nelson, R.D., L.D.

No on both counts. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised consumers to steer clear of over-the-counter weight-loss products that contain HCG.

HCG is human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced during pregnancy. As a prescription medication, HCG is used mainly to treat fertility issues. HCG is not approved for over-the-counter use, nor has it been proved to work for weight loss. Companies that sell over-the-counter HCG weight-loss products are breaking the law.

So why has there been so much talk about the HCG diet? Perhaps it's because the diet recommends severe calorie restriction — typically just 500 to 800 calories a day. People who follow such a very low calorie diet are likely to lose weight, at least in the short term. However, that level of calorie restriction has risks, such as gallstone formation, irregular heartbeat, and an imbalance of the electrolytes that keep the body's muscles and nerves functioning properly.

If weight loss is your goal, there are safer ways to lose weight. Talk with your doctor or other health care provider about how to make healthy changes that lead to permanent weight loss, such as eating a balanced diet and getting regular exercise.

The HCG diet is a starvation diet. Here is an illustration of how it works.  The Resting (basal) metabolic rate for a moderately active 300 pound woman 2909 calories per day. Her activities require an additional 1454. That means her total caloric for maintaining 300 pounds is a whopping 4364 a day! The bastard MD who are selling the HCG diet know that drastic calorie reduction will result in massive weight loss. Here is why. A pound of fat contains 3500 calories. 4364 that the 300 pound woman needs to maintain her weight - 500 calories allowed on the HCG diet = a 3864 calorie deficit. That is over 1 pound of weight loss in one day. That may sound like a good thing but it isn't. Very low calorie diets are dangerous for a variety of reasons.

The fuel of choice for our body cells is glucose. Glucose is stored in the liver in the form of glycogen. Withing a few days of being on a very low calorie diet the liver becomes deleted of glycogen and the cells rely on ketones which come from fat. When a person is in a state of ketosis they burn fat and muscle because that is the only fuel they have. Nearly everyone who goes on a very low calorie diet develops gall stones and over 1/3 of them need surgery, 

I said that the cells of the body prefer glucose. The cells of the brain can only function on glucose. If you stay of a ketogenic diet too long you will develop ketogenic psychosis.

There is no proof that the hormone HCG does anything to cause weight loss. We know that starvation causes weight loss.

A scumbag company called called In Shape MD LINK is selling franchises to greedy doctors.

The Keven Trudeau Connection 

Kevn Trudeau is one f the biggest shysters to ever come down the pike. Trudeau wrote a book called "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You To Know About. In this book he touts the HCG diet. Read more HERE!

Hey Kevin! YOU ARE FAT!

 If you know of a doctor who is selling this bullshit turn them into the police. File a complaint. Contact the state attorney general. Turn that doctor into the medical board. Tell that doctor what you think of him.

 

CG Brady Clobbers Diet Charlatans and Their Politics of Exploiting Fatlings

The following is part of a letter written lambasting a sleazy company and medical group selling HCG injections for weight loss. HCG is a hormone that is supposed to cause weight loss. The problem is, there is no evidence that it works. The truth is it is a scam perpetrated on fatlings who want to but their way thin.  HCG for Weight loss is a SCAM!

 With all due respect...

 MDs should stick to addicting people to drugs and DCs should stick to healing spines.

 You charlatans ignore several things when it comes to weight loss. The first thing you ignore is that none of your hocus pocus works. The other thing you ignore are the laws of physics and then you ignore reality.

 1. If the medical snake oil you sell worked we would not have an obesity epidemic.


 2. The so called SAD (Standard American Diet) diet is the same that people ate in the 70's except not the portions are 40% bigger. A simple accounting of calories will correspond with the increase in the average weight of Americans.

 3. The most the BMR can vary in individuals of the same age weight and gender is 35 calories a day.




 4. The most weight an adult female can maintain on 2000 calories per day is 140 pounds and then she'd have to be in a coma. That is an immutable scientific reality. She can CHOOSE to eat large amounts of nutrient dense foods with the correct amount of protein and fiber or she can pig out. I will not deny that the food industry and the medical industry have a vested interest in getting people fat and "addicted" to junk food but when you understand the psychology of gluttony you will see that most fat people remain blissfully ignorant about basic nutrition and or they feign ignorance. Proposing half baked barely tested theories only salves them and gives them more excuses and mechanisms for denial.

 I don't know what you are selling but it sounds like BS. Medical science today is an oxymoron. Nearly every medical study is biased and often sponsored by big pharma. As you may know the FDA is beyond corrupt and any study that looks into curing obesity is really a search for an expensive and dangerous pill or a justification for butchering a fat person's perfectly health digestive system.



Big people have bigger appetites. That's a no brainer. They get hungrier so they eat more. They fall for that low carb crap, they do OK for 10 days and after their liver is depleted of glycogen and they are entering ketogenic psychosis their brain cells are screaming for carbs. Then they think they are carb addicts. The repeat the induction phase and lose more muscle and then they binge on carbs again. BTW, Atkins died from heart disease and that Agatston got much of the nutrition wrong in his South Beach Diet book. He's also on statin drugs.



 It sounds like you are selling tests and some bullshit pills. What you need to be selling is reality. I could take 30 fatlings, feed them properly and their clinical indicators would return to normal in less than a week and they would lose weight. It's been done time and time again. They don't need a test or a pill.  They need an  adjustment... a fattitude adjustment. I know they are pathetic but that doesn't mean they should be exploited for their ignorance.


The following was CG's response to the claim that PCOS causes obesity.

Rev Burn says, "SUCK ON MY MAN TITTIES BITCH!

 It's funny that you mention PCOS as a cause because there are more overweight men than women. That's reality unless gluttonous men are growing ovaries like they are growing man titties.




The following was CG's response to the claim that fructose, grains and MSG are obesogenic. It they were I, Fat Bastard would be promoting them.

 Fructose has a GI of 20.  Wheat has been a staple for 3000 years. MSG has been around and was used more when people were not obese. Use of MSG has been on the decline for decades.

I hope you are now debunked. Stop being such  charlatans.