HCG DIET AND ITS
DANGERS
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
©
May 2015, L.D Wilson Consultants, Inc.
The HCG diet
system for losing weight is one of the most dangerous methods that I have ever
seen. It involves a 500-calorie
diet for a few weeks, and then perhaps a 1000 calorie diet for months, and the
use of human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG, as an appetite suppressant. The HCG may be given in injections or
in a homeopathic form.
The system
was proposed by a medical doctor who works in a large hospital in Italy. He presents it in a calm, reasonable
manner that makes it sound scientific and reasonable, when I believe it is not
either.
Before
critiquing the diet, I will mention a benefit of it. The person is not allowed to eat junk food, refined sugars
or much wheat. This, of course, is
excellent and will help anyone lose weight. Also, it appears that a person loses weight in all the right
places, which make the diet appealing to women, in particular. These are the positive aspects of this
diet system.
PROBLEMS
WITH THE HCG DIET AND WEIGHT LOSS SYSTEM
I have
received numerous reports of problems with this weight loss system from
clients. They include muscle
wasting, exhaustion when discontinuing the HCG, insomnia and possible liver
damage. Also I have received
reports of mental problems such as irritability and impaired judgment. In addition, as one might expect, the
weight will tend to come back as soon as one goes off the diet and the HCG,
unless a person is willing to make significant permanent dietary changes. This fact is not emphasized enough.
Here are the
reasons why the HCG diet is very dangerous and should be strictly avoided:
1.
A 500-calorie diet. This is simply
not enough food calories to maintain oneÕs nutrition. It is starvation and that is never healthy and not
needed. Losing weight by starving
oneself is quite insane. A normal
body can handle many more calories without gaining excessive weight. If you are gaining weight on a proper
diet, as explained below, then you need attention to your thyroid gland, your
adrenal glands, and other aspects of metabolism.
2.
Improper food and poor nutrition.
The diet is terribly deficient nutritionally. Besides being low in calories, its problems are:
a. Coffee and tea are permitted in
unlimited amounts. This is
horrible. Caffeine is a stimulant,
so it artificially tends to inhibit the appetite. Stimulants also deplete the
adrenals and stress the body, in general.
Caffeine also irritates the stomach and intestines, leading to even more
impaired nutrition in some cases.
It also appears to dehydrate the body for some reason. While one cup of tea or even coffee may
be fine, the diet allows as much as you like at breakfast, with no other food
to buffer it.
b. Not enough drinking water is recommended. Two liters of water are recommended on
the diet. However, in my
experience, this is not enough for most adults, who need about three liters or
three quarts.
c.
Nothing is said about the type of
drinking water. Many popular
drinking waters such as reverse osmosis water or multi-stage filtered tap water
do not seem to hydrate the body well enough. The best water for most people seems to be spring water,
with carbon-only filtered tap water as the second best type of drinking water
in most cases. Read Water For Drinking on this site for more on water.
d. Fruit is allowed and encouraged. In my
experience, fruit is not working well as a food today. TodayÕs hybridized fruit is much too
yin in Chinese medical terminology.
Eaten raw, it is even more yin.
Its sugar content upsets the body severely, and the fruit acids are also
apparently quite irritating to the body.
Fruit also appears to contain the wrong balance of minerals for most
people. Read Fruit-Eating
on this website for more on fruit.
e. Vegetables are virtually ignored,
with only one allowed with lunch and one for dinner. This is quite insane. Vegetables contain hundreds, if not
thousands of phytonutrients our bodies require today. I find that a diet of 70-80% cooked vegetables is essential
to build health.
Also, the
diet allows a little raw salad as your vegetable. I find that the body cannot absorb enough minerals from raw
salads, so the food is basically wasted, in a nutritional sense, and just fills
the stomach when the gastric capacity is needed for cooked vegetables and other
foods that provide more nutrition.
f. None or very little eggs and raw
dairy. Properly
prepared eggs and raw dairy foods such as raw cow and goat milk, cream, cheese
and yogurt are among the finest products, supplying many nutrients. Removing them from the diet is a sure
way to become deficient in selenium, fatty acids and much more.
g. Shellfish are allowed on the diet. Almost all of these contain too many
toxic metals, in our experience, and should be strictly avoided.
h. Too
low in fats and oils. The
diet severely limits fats and oils in order to restrict caloric intake. However, these are actually very
valuable foods to obtain omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins A, D, E, and K, and many
other valuable nutrients. Once
again, the HCG diet just induces a starvation situation that is anything but
healthful, no matter how one may feel on it.
i. Few, if any, vitamin or mineral
supplements are used.
This is quite insane, as the diet is deficient to begin with, and most
people are low in nutrients already.
As a result,
the diet is not only too low in calories, but also lacking in minerals, and
contains many harmful foods.
3.
HCG. Anything
that suppresses the appetite is generally terrible for your health. Appetite is a normal method of alerting
you to the need for nutrition.
Suppressing this natural mechanism is not wise, ever. If the appetite is excessive, then one
usually needs certain nutrients to satisfy some need within the body.
HCG
is an interesting appetite suppressant that should scare any thinking
person. Quite simply, HCG is a
death hormone. This means
that it is produced by the trophoblast, which is a parasitic stage of human
life that depletes the host of nutrients and etheric energy.
The
trophoblast only arises normally during the first 3 months of pregnancy. With the hormone it produces called
HCG, it is able to shunt nutrients from the mother into the fetus, thus
assuring the fetus of at least moderate nutrition at the beginning of
life. It also helps the mother to
Òfeel fineÓ, even though some of her vital nutrients are being literally stolen
by the growing child inside of her.
In other words, pregnancy is a type of parasitic condition and HCG is
part of the parasitic system.
However, it
gets more interesting. Most
cancers also produce HCG. In fact,
testing for HCG is the basis for an excellent cancer test. Cancer is also a parasite that has a
way of siphoning off nutrients from its host, so that most cancer patients
slowly die of starvation. What the
HCG seems to be able to do is suppress the appetite and keep a personÕs energy
up at the same time, so the person is not aware that they are starving to
death. In other words, HCG is part of
the stealth disease of cancer that makes it so hard to detect in its early
stages because the person Òfeels fineÓ.
Using HCG to
make one Òfeel fineÓ and have some energy while intentionally starving the body
with a 500-calorie diet is extremely stupid and unsafe, when there are far
better ways to lose weight.
4. One size fits all. The HCG diet,
like most others, is set up the same for everyone. No metabolic testing is recommended to assess oneÕs
metabolic rate, stage of stress, oxidation type or other determinations. People are not all the same, however,
and one size rarely fits all people, whether in clothing or diets. This means that some people will do far
better than others, and for some the diet is more dangerous than for others,
although I feel it is quite dangerous for everyone, as explained above.
5.
Worse afterwards. By following a nutritionally deficient diet
for a month or two, the body becomes even more nutrient deficient. When the diet ends, as this one must,
the person is then even less able to balance body chemistry and therefore less
able to keep weight off.
A
MUCH BETTER, SAFER AND AS EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS
Losing
weight is not difficult and does not require shots, drugs, or vigorous exercise
when one FAITHFULLY follows a nutritional balancing program. Nutritional balancing science offers
the following ways in an integrated fashion to produce easy, and most
importantly, safe and permanent weight loss:
1.
A diet of 70-80% cooked vegetables.
This will supply hundreds of missing nutrients. The diet must also contain animal
quality protein, properly prepared, each day, ideally a mall amount of raw
dairy products daily, and a small amount of whole grains. This provides many of the necessary
vitamins and minerals we need, in a more yang form.
2. A diet for oneÕs metabolic type,
determined by a properly performed and correctly interpreted hair mineral
analysis. This can make quite
a difference. Some people need
much more fats and oils, while others must have less of these foods, and more
vegetables and proteins.
3.
A healthful lifestyle. The main
factor is plenty of rest and sleep, and going to bed early.
4.
Three quarts of spring water each day.
This
can supply 40 or more minerals and other qualities contained in this water, but
not all others. Carbon-filtered
tap water is second best, but only if it is filtered with pure carbon and not
other types of filters of any kind.
5.
Excellent-quality supplements.
Among the most needed are supplements of iodine, zinc, selenium ,
calcium, magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D. A digestive aid is needed today by
everyone as well, and should be of animal origin, not the vegetable enzymes
which are slightly toxic and much more yin in Chinese medical terminology. Dosing nutrients properly is best done,
in my experience, by a properly performed and correctly interpreted hair
mineral analysis suing the method of interpretation of Dr. Paul C. Eck.
6.
Other procedures such as coffee enemas and near infrared sauna therapy. These can greatly speed up the
process of healing and weight loss in some cases.
This
combination works as well or better than the HCG system for weight loss for
most people, without the dangers and the cost. The healthful diet, lifestyle and basic nutritional
supplements should ideally be continued for years, preferably for the rest of
oneÕs life. In this way, the
thyroid and adrenal glands will slowly be rebuilt, the body will readjust its
fat storage, and many other things such as chronic infections, toxic metals,
toxic chemicals, and other imbalances that occur in almost everyone will also
heal.
This makes
for far more lasting weight loss, plus a wonderful improvement in oneÕs overall
health and wellness. For much more
detail about weight loss and weight gain, read Weight
Loss And Weight Gain on this website.
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