A New Discovery in Dieting with HCG

    Considering that American's are constantly obsessed with being healthy and having the "perfect body", this particular article would appeal to many, especially women who are trying to lose weight. The new discovery of a diet plan with hormones, also attracted any skeptics, as well as those individuals that are desperately seeking a way to lose weight. Reported by The New York Times,

"The regimen combines daily injections with a near-starvation diet, and patients, mostly women, are often enticed by promises that they can lose about a pound a day without feeling hungry. Perhaps even more seductively, they are frequently told that the hCG will prompt their bodies to carry away and metabolize fat that has been stored where they least want it — in their upper arms, bellies and thighs".

Any person with some common sense would know that a "near-starvation diet" can't be beneficial to their health. Its been known that an average human body that remains completely motionless, for example, sitting on the couch all day watching tv, would need at least 1500 calories just to allow they body to preform its basic functioning. Starvation for a few days only sheds off excess water weight. It will however, destroy the way your metabolism flows throughout the body, and eventually disable the way your digestive system operates. In combination with hormonal injections and a limiting 500 calorie diet, the new diet plan with HCG does not seem very promising.