Diet Doc Discourages 500-Calorie Starvation Diet and Promotes Safe and Effective hCG Weight Loss

ANCHORAGE, AK–(Marketwired – January 27, 2017) – The hCG diet is one of the most controversial diets in the world because when it was originally developed by Dr. ATW Simeons in the early 1950s, it was practically a starvation diet that limited daily consumption to 500 calories. The original hCG diet, or Simeons diet, involved losing up to one pound per day through the administration of a low calorie diet with small doses of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), a hormone produced during pregnancy, that contains 244 amino acids. This led to rapid weight loss through the elimination of “abnormal” fat located in cells and around internal organs. There were, however, the negative side effects of hCG like abnormal weakness, muscle loss, and hair loss, which ultimately prompted medical professionals and the Obesity Medicine Association to declare it unsafe. These drawbacks indicated the dangers of the Simeons method, which is why the original hCG diet, despite its rapid results, is not recommended.

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