Article by Christian Walker
HGC Diet: What is this stuff?First of all, it is really the hCG diet which stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. Hcg is a hormone that is produced by the cells in the placenta. It helps in the development of progesterone and it also helps produce gonads in the developing baby. But none of these effects help us answers the question, how does the hCG diet cause you to lose weight?
HGC diet: How does the hCG diet help you lose weight?As it turns out hCG also works on the hypothalamus to mobilize the fat cells to either store fat or release fat to be burned for energy. So if you take the hormone hCG and go on a low calorie diet at the same time your body can burn up to 2000 to 2500 calories of fat a day. In fact, you will eat a 500 calorie a day diet while taking this hormone. Normally that low of calorie diet would be very harmful to your body, but because of the hCG hormone, your body makes up the calorie deficit by burning the mobilized fat stored in your cells. The result is dramatic, fast, weight loss of pure body fat.
HGC diet: But is it safe?The hCG hormone is a natural hormone produced by the human body and the levels of hCG that you will have in your system during the hCG diet will be much lower than those found in a pregnant woman. The calorie deficit you will experience due to the extremely low calorie diet will be made up by your body’s fat that is stored in your cells. Under normal circumstances your cells would not readily give up that fat, but due to the influence of hCG on the hypothalamus they quickly and easily allows the fat to be burned. If the hCG diet is followed strictly, it should be as safe as any diet out there and safer than some that are now practiced.
HGC Diet: But what about all of the stuff on the web warning about the dangers of hCG dieting.Those that write these dire warnings have probably never been on this diet, I have and I lost a lot of weight on it. In fact I have been on the hCG diet twice, as has my brother-in-law and sister. All with great success and no noticeable negative side effects. Since the FDA has not approved hCG for weight loss, some health professionals will not recommend it just based on that fact alone. Writers who talk about organ damage and the like are reacting to the 500 calorie diet as if that is all that is involved in the hCG diet and they are not really understanding the fact that the calorie deficit is made up by metabolizing fat and the body organs survive just fine and in fact benefit from the reduction of excess fat.
HGC Diet: But does it work.The answer is an emphatic YES! And there are several reasons why. The most important ones are the fact that the body burns so much fat during this diet. Besides this, you can not cheat on this diet or you will pay. Remember the cells are open for fat business either way. They will accumulate fat just as fast as they will expel it when they are under the influence of hCG. Since you can’t cheat you lose weight fast. The figures of 1 – 3 pounds a day are reasonable, especially if you follow the program strictly to the letter.
