FDA Bans Sales of HCG-Placenta-Based Weight Loss Remedy

In early December, Federal regulators ordered several companies to stop selling an unproven weight loss remedy that uses protein from the human placenta.

The FDA issued warning letters to seven companies that sell the protein as drops, pellets or sprays.  Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is produced by the placenta and found in the urine of pregnant women.  While it is approved for certain infertility treatments, the FDA says there is no evidence it helps reduce weight.

“There is no evidence that HCG has any beneficial effect on weight loss, and it’s potentially harmful,” say boomer generation health experts Dian Griesel, Ph.D., and Tom Griesel, authors of the new book TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (April 2011, BSH).  “Since HCG injections are expensive, supplement producers jumped on the bandwagon by producing and marketing less expensive, yet still worthless, drops, pellets and sprays claiming the same unfounded results as injections.”

“HCG products are heavily marketed with unsubstantiated weight loss benefit claims,” says Tom.  “HGC has never been shown in any controlled study to have any benefit for weight loss.”

According to a survey of diet products conducted by the Federal Trade Commission several years ago, almost five million Americans are victimized by weight-loss fraud annually. 

“Weight management is a huge problem in America and it seems we are a desperate nation in desperate need of help and proper diet and lifestyle guidance,” says Dian.  “There are no drugs, supplements or magic potions that will solve your weight management struggles.  A healthy diet and lifestyle program is the only way to go.  It is much easier and enjoyable than most people realize.  Once you move past all of the misinformation and marketing scams, the solution to an ideal body composition and optimal health is readily available and within reach of everyone and anyone.”

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