Thanks Cheryl for your comment,your right on,Im a 72 year old male who is very sceptic of these diets, My wife and I are both very overweight ,Well I feel we are ,I was 240 LBS. and my wife was the same,Well we went on the HCG diet , and dont think its easy!,we were on for 30 days,I lost 32 Lbs and my wife lost 40 Lbs' I wore a 40 inch waist size and now am a 36 inch and never felt better in my life,and I can not overeat as my stomuck has shrunk, and now know when I am really hungary.and on these drops all they do is trick your brain into saying im not hungary . Its been over 2 months since we were on the diet and also over Christmas where we really over eat and we only gained 2 to 3 Lbs. so we are really feeling so healthy about this I dont know as I havent felt this good for years!

I'm no conspiracy theorist, I am well educated. Thank you for the stereotype, though. Pharmaceutical companies are making a killing from killing children with ADHD medication and other psychotropics they don't need. We're terrified or children who have a lot of energy. We stifle them in the education system and then wonder why they grow up sedentary. Stop medicating your kids, turn off the TV and get a freakin' life.

People on the anorexia diets are also not the ones clogging up the health care system. Nice try, though.

Cheryl, I'm a health care worker and believe me, the health system does NOT want people to live unhealthy lifestyles. Conspiracy theorists who believe that the health care system is suppressing information to keep people sick are misinformed. We're spread so thin dealing with the rising epidemic of lifestyle-related diseases that people are dying waiting for their doctor's appointments, surgeries, therapy, etc. If people suddenly started living healthy lifestyles, we'd actually be able to provide care to all the people who need it. Believe me, the pharmaceutical companies will always have something to make money over.

And in response to the idea that somebody can live off 500 calories a day and still be healthy...that is dangerous misinformation. Your body needs a certain amount of sugars, protein and fat daily to maintain bone and tissue health, keep the immune system strong, and fuel the nervous system. 500 calories likely wouldn't provide you with the vitamins, nutrients, or minerals to keep all your systems running healthily. Sure, your body will start feeding on itself if it is malnourished, but when you're eating that little, it's going to be taking fat not just from your belly and butt, but from around your vital organs, not to mention from the muscles of your body and even organs like your heart just to sustain itself. You're setting yourself up for osteoporosis or a heart attack in 20 years. Please, don't do it. I'm busy enough at work as it is.

A healthy weight loss regime should be something that you can maintain indefinitely, not just go "on" and "off" as you please. If you're losing much more than 2-3 pounds a week, you're not living a sustainable, healthy lifestyle and you're setting yourself up for a yo-yo effect or worse.

Take the advice in the article and talk to your doctor before you do something crazy you read on the internet. Please.

The HCG diet DOES work. You have to be careful because some companies water it down, to get more $ out of you - but there are legitimate companies out there that dont do this.

Approved by the government? The very same that knowingly approves fluoride, GMOs, and aspartame in our diet?

Not to mention its not from a pregnant womens urine directly. You are not drinking urine as this misinformed Arrey person is making it out to be, its an energy imprint of the hormone.

This lady doesnt know the facts. You are not on a 500 calorie diet except for what you physically consume. Your body, each day is actually consuming what it needs depending on your weight.. so if you need 3500 a day, you are eating 500 of it directly, but the body is releasing 3000 into your bloodstream. THAT is how the fat is coming off.
And its coming from places fat shouldnt be, like the belly as opposed to other fads that are truly fads... that steal from your structural and padding - not safe.

And when you are done for the first few weeks, you rev up your calorie intake to what you need, stabilize your system, and when thats done you can eat whatever you want. Of course if you continue the old habits youll regain the weight. But thats on you.

Yet why is there disinformation on something works? Lets think, maybe because if people actually got healthy, the pharmaceutical companies would start to lose money. Lets see if my comments even approved.