HCG Diet for Weight Loss Debated on The Dr. Oz Show

HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) is a hormone made by the placenta in women during pregnancy that helps support the normal growth and development of a fetus. Since the 1950s, however, HCG has been promoted for weight loss through a low calorie HCG diet that the FDA warns is dangerous.

Last year on the Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Oz discussed the HCG diet with pro-HCG diet advocates who claimed that the HCG diet works miracles for weight loss while maintaining lean muscle mass. Opponents of the HCG diet, however, pointed out that the VLCD (very low calorie diet) recommended with HCG would cause weight loss by itself and that HCG can cause harm to a woman’s body such as unusual hemorrhaging.

Unconvinced, by the HCG diet, Dr. Oz did not recommend it for his viewers last year. This year, however, he is giving HCG diet experts another chance to show that the HCG diet is effective and safe.

About a year ago on this show I challenged a leading weight loss expert to do more research about HCG. Today, she’s back with her results and she says what she has found has the potential to convince me that HCG for weight loss can work,” says Dr. Oz as he reintroduces the debate over whether viewers should try the HCG diet for weight loss.

With Dr. Oz is special guest Sheri Emma, MD who states that she has done her research and is ready to reveal to Dr. Oz what she has found.

When asked by Dr. Oz if her results show specifically whether the HCG component of the HCG diet helps with the weight loss or helps keep the weight off, Dr. Emma tells him that it’s a little complicated.

“It’s the diet that drives the weight loss, it’s HCG injections that affect how you lose the weight,” says Dr. Emma as she elaborates by telling Dr. Oz that a standard low calorie diet will cause weight loss, but at the same time muscle is lost as well. But with the HCG injections in conjunction with the very low calorie diet, she states that her research has shown that the muscle mass is retained, which she states is important toward maintaining the weight loss rather than regaining it later on.

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Source:  By Timothy Boyer on February 7, 2013 at http://www.emaxhealth.com/8782/hcg-diet-weight-loss-debated-dr-oz-show