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    New Pounds and Inches
    New Pounds and Inches
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    New Pounds and Inches

    By Richard Lipman M.D.

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    The HCG diet has caught the attention of most overweight Americans as it promises to help the dieter lose a pound a day without hunger or cravings and without a minute of exercise. The HCG diet was conceived in 1950, by Dr. A.T. Simeons, who wrote in his booklet, Pounds and Inches, that injecting HCG, a hormone produced normally by pregnant women, could not only produce spectacular weight loss results, but at the same time "re-set" the metabolism centers in the brain permanently. Simeons' plan required daily injections of HCG, and a rigid semi-starvation 500 calorie a day diet. Although many people have been successful with the plan, an equal number have found the HCG diet difficult to follow and have increasing questions about the HCG's safety and effectiveness.

    In the New Pounds and Inches, Richard L. Lipman M.D., a board certified endocrinologist and internist, updates and revises Simeons' 1954 plan using modern day science and his personal experience treating thousands of patients with HCG. Dr Lipman clarifies all of the controversies surrounding the HCG diet. The New Pounds and Inches uses oral HCG, an 800 calorie food plan, protein with all three meals, many fruits, unlimited vegetables, and many more foods, beverages and snacks unavailable to Dr. Simeons. It presents a workable exercise program, a maintenance plan and concludes with hundreds of appropriate HCG recipes. The New Pounds and Inches offers a safe, effective weight loss plan that sets the standard in weight loss for both practitioners and patients.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456602901
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      New Pounds and Inches - Richard Lipman M.D.

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      Preface

      The HCG Diet was invented by Dr. A.T. Simeons in 1954. For those not acquainted with the diet, it is a very low calorie, no fat, no sugar weight loss plan accompanied by the hormone human chorionic gonadotropins or HCG. HCG is made only by the placenta in pregnant women. It produces the positive pregnancy test and is thought to mobilize fat from pregnant women to supply nutrients for the fetus. Dr Simeons described the diet in 1954 in his self published booklet, Pounds and Inches which he called the HCG protocol. Dr. Simeons’ plan consisted of three phases: Phase 1 was a limited period of overeating or bingeing usually for two days, Phase 2 was the 500 calorie, almost no fat and no sugar diet that was given with HCG by injection for 21 to 41 days and Phase 3 was a recovery or stabilization period of three weeks.

      The HCG diet has remained popular but controversial. Some medical studies find it to be effective and an equal number reveal no additional weight loss with the HCG Diet beyond that achieved by the caloric reduction. All have found it extremely safe. The FDA’s position is given in the disclaimer.

      This book hopes to clarify all of the controversies of Dr Simeons’ original Pound and Inches protocol as it updates the HCG diet to the 21st century. It is based on my personal experience treating overweight patients with HCG and the most recent medical studies.

      Introduction

      Do you have a friend or family member, who can eat a pint or more of Haagen-Dazs without gaining a pound while you gain weight after eating a spoonful or two? Why do some people seem to eat what they like and remain thin, while others limit their food, often drastically, yet struggle to shed their bulk?  It’s all about metabolism, using food more efficiently and burning fat. Some people just burn fat faster and have a higher metabolism than others. Those are the very few lucky ones. For most of us, including myself, it’s a daily struggle.

      During the course of the last 25 years, as an M.D. endocrinologist and weight loss specialist, I’ve treated more than 20,000 individuals with weight and metabolic problems. I have researched, and prescribed countless diet plans, specialty foods, exercise programs and even surgery, only to find some of my patients were very successful while others were not. I have seen people put themselves through countless diets, schemes and programs to try to lose the extra weight. Whether its calorie counting, low carbs, high protein, low fat, portion control or special exercises, the lists of schemes, programs, supplements and regimens are endless.

      Six years ago, I began to recognize the failure of these food schemes, the increasing complexity of daily life, the inability to understand and remember complicated diet plans, the hardship of preparing special food recipes, or counting or measuring one food group or another. I began to understand that overweight individuals needed a much simpler way to approach their weight loss. They needed a simple way to speed up their metabolism and then make a few permanent changes for life long weight control.

      I decided to review all of the patients I have treated that lost weight and kept it off to see if there were some common techniques that they used. When I tabulated the characteristics of my 1100 successful weight losers --their age, starting weight, weight loss and duration of their weight loss, there was no correlation with the type of foods they ate. (Except for the fact than almost none drank drinks with sugar or ate high sugar foods or ate regularly from fast food restaurants, nor was there much correlation with exercise). Some people counted calories, some watched their carbs others their fat. What they did do was to pay attention to their metabolism using secrets that often I had never heard about.

      As I began to look at ways to increase metabolism, I looked back to 1954 and the hormone-HCG (HCG is the abbreviation for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) a naturally occurring hormone) produced by the placenta when a woman becomes pregnant and found in huge quantities in the pregnant women’s urine. In fact, it’s the hormone causing the positive pregnancy test

      Although the HCG diet has been receiving a great deal of attention lately, it actually is not a new concept.  In fact, using HCG for weight loss was first reported by British physician, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons in 1954. Dr. Simeons’ original work was in India with overweight boys with Froehlich Syndrome. These boys were obese with underdeveloped testes and penises. When given HCG for treatment of their underdeveloped sexual organs they lost their appetite and the fat around the belly and hips. He further noted in India, that pregnant women living in often semi-starvation conditions often delivered healthy, full term infants. He surmised that HCG might increase metabolism and fat burning—exactly what I was looking for.

      I followed Dr. Simeons’ research to Rome, Italy in the early 1950’s. Dr. Simeons reported that small doses of HCG given to overweight individuals (men and women) decreased their appetite, and made them lose inches specifically around their hips, thighs, buttocks and stomachs and reset their hypothalamus (the area in the brain responsible for metabolism and appetite). He self published his findings in a booklet, Pounds and Inches. This monograph is free to download at http://tinyurl.com/simeons or can be viewed on my website, www.bestbuyhcg.com. Dr. Simeons noted that when HCG was used in conjunction with a very low calorie diet there appeared to be none of the hunger, craving, fatigue and weakness usually associated with a very low calorie diet. Dr. Simeons commented on the lack of appetite, irritability and headaches while taking HCG. Dr. Simeons began to treat very wealthy patients, member of the Royal families of Europe and Hollywood stars in his hospital in Rome. He treated his patients both as inpatients and outpatients in his hospital with a specially prepared diet and daily injections of HCG. (In later chapters you will see how important it is to note who were Dr. Simons' patients and how they were treated). Dr. Simeons reported in Pounds and Inches that everyone lost 1 lb. per day on his protocol independent of their starting weight, gender or age. However, in a letter to the editor in the British medical journal, the Lancet in 1954, Simeons wrote that that patients that followed his plan lost on the average of 250 to 600 grams a day ( 0.5 to 1.3 lb) per day, independent of how old they were, their gender or how much they weighed. Unfortunately, Dr. Simeons died unexpectedly in 1970 and had no time to verify his findings or submit it to review by other physicians.

      As one might expect, physicians from all over the world began using HCG in their weight loss practices. It became the method of choice in the 1970’s for weight loss. However, in 1976, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered physicians treating overweight people with Dr. Simeons’ HCG protocol to stop claiming that HCG was safe or approved by the FDA for weight-control. The FDA ordered that obese patients seeking treatment with HCG be informed in writing:

      HCG has not been demonstrated to an effective adjunctive therapy in the treatment of obesity. There is no substantial evidence that it increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction, that it causes a more attractive or normal distribution of fat or that it decreases the hunger and discomfort associated with calorie-restricted diets.

      More recently, as reported in USA Today in January 2011, Elizabeth Miller, the FDA’s leader for the Internet and health fraud team said, "There is no evidence the oral over-the-counter(my emphasis) products (HCG) are effective for weight loss. While they may not be dangerous, they're at least economic fraud,

      About three years ago, I began to use HCG almost as exactly as Dr. Simeons wrote so many years ago—rigid diets and inject able HCG. I found that some of Dr. Simeons' observations were true: most of my patients were not hungry, had more energy and lost often an amazing amount of weight. Gradually, I began to hear questions from my patients, Why do I have to use injections? Why not drops? Do I really need to binge? Can I add a zero calorie, zero sugar soda? What about breakfast, you said it’s so important? What about those zero calorie desserts? To answer these and to see if I could make the HCG diet more palatable to many of my patients, I began my search into Dr. Simeons' reports including the original booklet, Pounds and Inches written in 1954. What I found led me to modify and update Dr. Simeons’ original protocol which forms the basis of this book.

      Part 1 How We Became an Overweight World and Why Lose Weight

      Chapter 1.

      Why Do I Need to Lose Weight?

      For over 50 million Americans, having to lose weight is not about looking good in that new dress, the suit they wore last year, or their beach wear. Talking about good looks seems to have become the most important thing in many people’s lives. The reasons to lose the extra weight are a lot more serious. If you want to be able to take that trip and do all the things you dream about once you’re able to retire, or want to be around to see your children grow up, you must lose that extra weight. Doing so can even become a matter of life or death!

      Here Are the Important Complications of Weight Gain:

      • High blood pressure

      • Heart Disease

      • Strokes

      • Diabetes (type 2)

      • Cancer

      • Infertility (such as polycystic ovaries)

      • Sleep Disturbances

      • Gall Bladder Disease

      • Osteoarthritis

      Here is What Excess Fat Can Do:

      • If you are 40 lbs overweight, you are cutting 3 years off your life.

      • If you are 100 lbs. overweight, your are cutting 10 years off your life.

      • Being extremely obese leads to the same chance of death as smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

      • People that are only moderately overweight (BMI 25-30) cut a year off their life.

      • People with a BMI greater than 30 cut as much as 5 years off their life.

      • For every 5 point increase in BMI, chances of early death increase by 30%

      Excess Food is Stored In Fat Cells Around Our Abdomen

      Research on obesity has now concluded that the excess food we eat, and do not use, is stored away in ever-enlarging fat cells, mostly around our waists and inside our bellies. These fat cells do a lot more than just make you look fat. They have the ability to produce new dangerous and even life-threatening chemicals and absorb chemicals from the blood stream.

      Abdominal Fat cells can:

      • Raise blood pressure and blood cholesterol.

      • Injure blood vessels and cause heart attacks and strokes.

      • Raise blood sugar and cause diabetes.

      • Make us feel permanently hungry .

      These conditions do not simply go along with being obese, as previously thought. The reality is that these engorged fat cells are the cause of all problems. The only way to reverse the situation, and to stabilize vital bodily functions, is by forcing these overgrown cells to shrink back to their original size and return to their normal metabolic functions.

      How Can a Collection of Fat Cells Cause So Many Problems?

      their waist is called metabolic syndrome, the most serious medical problem facing Americans today. It’s the fact cells within the abdomen, next to the liver, spleen and intestines that do all of the damage.

      Watch a You Tube video of how fat cells cause us so much damage at http://tinyurl.com/fatcells.

      Different Levels of Weight Gain

      The first issue that we need to address is the definition of obesity. Although I tell my patients that their ideal weight is the weight they feel comfortable with and the weight they can maintain   without feeling anxious or deprived, everyone wants a number. We need to be careful here, because ideal weight based on fashion trends, celebrities’ physical appearance, or an idealistic body image rarely reflects healthy weight.

      In 1998, the National Institutes of Health correlated excess weight with different health problems and determined three guidelines for defining overweight individuals.

      These three guidelines are used for diagnosing obesity:

      1. Ratio of body weight to height (BMI)

      2. Circumference of one’s waist

      3. Prese nce of risk factors related to heart disease

      1. Body Mass Index (BMI)—Measures Fat and Muscle Mass

      The ratio of body weight to height is called the body mass index (BMI), and reflects the total fat as related to one’s height and weight. Your BMI can be determined by using the following chart:

      Find your height on the left side and follow the line until it intersects with the line representing your weight, as listed at the bottom. If your BMI is in the white zone, you are underweight; if it is in the green zone, you are of normal weight for your height; if in the Yellow zone, you are overweight; and if in the red zone, you are obese and are in the morbidly obese zone, or the high BMI group. BMI may give false information for muscular individuals because the extra weight may be because of the extra muscles. Calculate your

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