Beware of fad diets. They come and go. And even if a plan that promises a quick fix extraordinary loss of, say, 30 pounds in one month can seem very attractive, is very unrealistic and dangerous. The latest in a long line of fad diets is the HCG diet that seems to have taken U.S. by storm.
HCG diet that contains the photos, or a drop of liquid containing gonadatropin chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced during pregnancy. hormone injections are sometimes used to treat infertility. This diet and hormone was initiated 50 years ago, the answer to obesity. Time hCG diet was the most popular weight loss program in the United States.