HCG diet was largely discredited long ago

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 21:21 in Health & Medicine

Doctors comparing weight-loss results with HCG injections versus a placebo failed to produce evidence that the hormone was anything special. A long-ago discredited fad diet has been getting increased attention lately, thanks to Web chatter and the claims of a bestselling author. The so-called HCG diet's recent popularity is a bit surprising -- and not just because research suggests it doesn't work.

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