HCG drops

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shannyfro
shannyfro Posts: 641
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Does anyone know if the HCG drops diet works?? I'm thinking about it but I'm not sure if it's healthy or not. I have PCOS, would it work for that?

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  • mallory3411
    mallory3411 Posts: 839 Member
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    They have been deemed a fraud... One reason why the injections have been banned in some areas.

    You eat about 500 calories a day on the diet with the drops. Yes, you will lose weight but not because of the drops and most of that weigh loss will be muscle.
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
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    Everyone I know who tried this diet ended up having gall bladder surgery soon after losing weight. Don't know if there is a connection, but turned me off because I don't want to go under the knife!
  • Health_Gal
    Health_Gal Posts: 718 Member
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    Good luck with your weight loss, but the HCG diet has done nothing but HARM to people I know that used it.

    The only reason people lose weight on that plan is you are only allowed to eat 500 calories a day. HCG has been scientifically proven to do NOTHING to help with weight loss or to make it safe to eat only 500 calories a day. It will not protect muscle, reset your metabolism or do anything else the snake oil salesmen that sell it claim. Dr. Simeons was a quack doctor. His "HCG protocol" has absolutely NO scientific backing and is not worth risking your health on.

    Any doctor that pushes the HCG diet plan should be stripped of their license to practice medicine because they are being totally unethical and giving advice that goes against the conclusions of all reliable scientific research on the subject.

    The HCG diet has been studied by many scientific organizations, and they all concluded that HCG, even the "real" injectable version, is no more effective than a placebo, and eating only 500 calories a day for weeks, as recommended by that plan, can cause more health problems than it solves.

    I know some people that put their faith in the HCG diet, and became very ill from malnutrition as a result. Then they regained more weight than they lost. Now they wish they never heard of HCG.

    The Government is now in the process of getting all that fraudulent stuff off the market, and it's about time!

    http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm281333.htm

    http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/hcg-diet-dangerous-1428

    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hcg-diet/AN02091

    http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-hcg-for-weight-loss

    http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/weight-loss-cure-dont-want-you-to-know

    http://www.dietscam.org/reports/hcg.shtml
  • wenders123
    wenders123 Posts: 338 Member
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    Dear Posters,

    MyFitnessPal strongly recommends that our users follow the calorie guidelines automatically assigned by our site, unless they are under the direct supervision of a doctor. We are currently reviewing the medical literature on the HCG/500 calorie diet and reserve the right to moderate against discussions of this diet at any time in the future.

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    Thank you all for your concern. We're definitely looking closely at this issue.

    In the meantime this thread is being locked.

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