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Anyone who has been on a diet knows there are affordable ways to lose weight, including eating a balanced diet and exercising. The HCG diet combines the use of supplements or hormone injections and calorie restriction to promote weight loss. However, there is no scientific evidence that the diet is safe or works the way its advocates claim. These include marketed HCG weight loss products along with advice for users to follow a strict diet.
1. What is HCG diet product?
HCG is a hormone that a woman's body produces during pregnancy to help the fetus develop. Doctors sometimes prescribe HCG injections to treat fertility problems in women and hormone problems, such as hypogonadism in men.
HCG diet products have been around for a long time now. Users and advertisements say that taking HCG makes the body hungry and aids in weight loss by maintaining the redistribution of body fat from the stomach, thighs and buttocks.
Advocates of popular dietary products containing HCG claim that they can reset the body's metabolism. The manufacturers of these products also claim that the HCG diet promotes weight loss of up to one pound per day.
Chế độ ăn HCG là chế độ ăn kiêng rất ít chất béo, rất ít calo
2. Are HCG diet products good and effective?
Experts say the HCG diet is neither good nor effective. Experts recommend that people avoid any over-the-counter products that say they contain HCG.
HCG has been approved as a prescription drug to treat fertility problems, but they warn against using it for weight loss.
When using HCG they cause a number of side effects that affect psychophysiology:
Mood swings In the body a lot of water is stored in the body Enlarged breasts in men Blood clots Another related aspect of HCG The HCG diet are its promoters, often recommending that people strictly limit their calorie intake to around 500 per day.
Although a very low calorie diet may promote weight loss in the short term, it puts people at risk for potentially serious side effects, including: Malnutrition, low mood, irregular heartbeat, gallstones.
Ăn kiêng HCG không đem lại hiệu quả và có thể ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng tới sức khỏe của bạn
3. HCG is not approved without a prescription and is not approved for weight loss
Products marketed for weight loss that contain HCG are often marketed in connection with a very low calorie diet, usually a diet that limits calories to 500 per day. Many of these popular HCG products claim to reset your metabolism, change unusual eating patterns, and lose 20 to 30 pounds in 30 to 40 days.
These products are marketed with amazing claims and people think that if they are losing weight, then HCG has to work. But the data simply doesn't support this, any loss is due to severe calorie restriction.
HCG as a prescription drug to treat female infertility and other medical conditions. HCG is not allowed to be used without a prescription for any purpose. It is not approved for weight loss.
In fact, the prescription label notes that there is no substantial evidence that it increases weight loss beyond calorie restriction, that it causes a more attractive or normal fat distribution , or it reduces the feeling of hunger.
Thuốc HCG được sử dụng để điều trị vô sinh ở nữ giới chứ không có tác dụng giảm cân
4. Very Low Calorie Diets Are Unhealthy
Living on 500 calories a day is not only unhealthy but dangerous. People who follow such restrictive diets are at increased risk for side effects, including gallstone formation, electrolyte imbalances that keep the body's muscles and nerves working properly, and rhythm. irregular heart. Such restrictive diets can be dangerous, even fatal.
Very low calorie diets are sometimes prescribed by health care professionals for people with moderate to extreme obesity as part of medical treatment to alleviate a health condition. obesity, such as high blood pressure. But even then, strict and ongoing medical supervision is needed to ensure that the side effects are not life-threatening.
Without medical supervision, people on very low calorie diets may not be getting enough vitamins, minerals, and most importantly, protein. If you want to lose weight, do it gradually and reduce your daily calorie intake.
If you have an HCG product for weight loss discontinue use, throw it away and stop following the diet instructions. Talk to your healthcare professional about a safe and healthy weight loss plan for you.
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