Chloe Adisson answers:
Dietary supplements are poorly regulated in the US. They do not have to conform to the stringent standards applied to pharmaceuticals or food products by the FDA. The result of this absence of oversight has been a scammer’s dream and the scammers have made the most of it.
The scammers advertise their products in the usual way with commercial dot com websites. However, they also will publish blogs, reviews, scientific mock articles and white papers, and even scam stories so no matter where you look in the dot com part of the web you’ll find only good things about their products. The are very good at “gaming” the search engines so all you will find is what they want you to find. And, of course, they make sure these phony websites are not traceable to them. You can learn more by watching this CBS new video –> http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5196740n&tag=related;photovideo (you’ll have to sit through a quick commercial message first).
Anyone who believes there is an easy way to lose fat or add muscle should ask themself the following questions.
1. If there was an easy way to do hard things like burn fat or build muscle, why doesn’t the whole world know about it? How could that be kept secret when that’s what so many people desire?
2. If there were supplements that could help burn fat or build muscle, why haven’t the huge and powerful pharmaceutical companies taken it over? Why let the scammers like GNC and Weider continue to make $millions off the public when they have a much greater capacity for providing such products?
3. If there was a supplement that helped people shed pounds, why doesn’t your doctor know about it? If you’re overweight, why doesn’t your physician just give you the pill or recommend the acai or HCG diet or whatever? Why are physicians always telling the same story about obesity and how to cope with it?
4. Why do people pay big bucks to have liposuction or stomach stapling if supplements could really help them to lose fat?
There is only one good answer to all of these questions. Most of the supplements which are supposed to make you lose fat or add muscle just don’t work. It’s really that simple.
If you’re interested in burning fat or building muscle and you see a product which claims to help, be very skeptical. The golden rule for intelligent consumerism is still…
“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
Now, about your HCG diet. When reviewing the research it seems obvious that HGC contributes nothing to fat loss and is no more than another “snake oil” scam. HCG contributes nothing to the diet and the diet alone, without the HCG, will work as well. Check the following excerpts from the US National Institute of Health…the place where the doctors get their information regarding health research.
“In recent publications describing mostly well-documented double-blind studies authors largely reject hCG administration in dieting. Supporters of the hCG diet must prove the efficacy of this method in controlled studies according to the German Drug Law. Until then the opinion of the German steroid toxicology panel is still valid, that hCG is ineffective in dieting and should not be used.”
Red: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3609673
“Side effects were seen in 2 volunteers from the hCG group, 1 of whom suffered from severe headache and the other who suffered from ovarian cysts which were punctured by laparoscopy. The success of the diet was based on motivation and good information, rather than on the hCG administration. (author’s modified)”
Ref: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3609673
“We conclude that there is no rationale for the use of HCG injections in the treatment of obesity.”
Ref: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405506
“Supporters of the hCG diet must prove the efficacy of this method in controlled studies according to the German Drug Law. Until then the opinion of the German steroid toxicology panel is still valid, that hCG is ineffective in dieting and should not be used”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3609673
“The success of the diet was based on motivation and good information, rather than on the hCG administration.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12281505
“Subjects receiving HCG injections showed no advantages over those on placebo in respect of any of the variables recorded. Furthermore, weight loss on our diet was similar to that on severely restricted intake. We conclude that there is no rationale for the use of HCG injections in the treatment of obesity.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12281505
“You won’t see me promoting quick fixes or fad diets anytime soon. But every once in awhile something comes along that seems so dangerous I have to call it out. That’s why I’m going to help reveal the truth behind the HCG diet.”
http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/07/hcg-diet-look-elsewhere-for-weight-loss/
Good luck and good health!!
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