HCG Diet Food Pyramid

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Yes, the HCG diet has a specific food pyramid. The best description that I have found summarizes it very nicely. It includes pointers on how to vary the diet and still lose weight.

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Eating healthy today is not as easy as it might seem and the food pyramid can be confusing for some. Combine the need to learn about the food pyramid and how the HCG diet plan works, and a dieter might want to run for the hills! Nevertheless, understanding the food pyramid is essential to your HCG weight loss success. Common sense food selections simply are not enough. Read more here.

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Dr. D

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Importance of Protein on the HCG Diet

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Protein, fat, and carbohydrate all have their roles for the HCG diet. Keeping the proportions of these food groups within a narrow range is crucial for proper fat loss. Here is a valuable tip on HCG diet protein.

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Protein A Critical Component Of The HCG Diet – Weight Loss Tips

Protein is a key component of hCG diet plans. I will explain why the protein portion of this diet is so crucial. Protein has several metabolic effects that are critical to success when losing weight on an hCG diet. …

Publish Date: 06/05/2010 2:51

http://www.pacificweightloss.com/protein-a-critical-component-of-the-hcg-diet/2010/06/05/

All the best in HCG dieting,

Dr. D

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HCG Diet Video

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This HCG diet video is a great starting point for learning about the diet. It explains how to get started and gives some important pointers on the best ways to get your weight loss goal.

HCG DIET PROTOCOL BASICS

New to this diet? Take your first steps by watching this vlog and learn about how to start. 1. Read Pounds & Inches by Dr. Simeons which can be found here: www.hcgdietinfo.com. 2. Order HCG online at this trusted site: www.pharmacyescrow.com 3. Join …

Link to PharmacyEscrow.com

The HCG source mentioned in this video is a non-U.S. pharmacy online. I have checked it out and it is a legitimate company. The link to their site is here:

PharmacyEscrow.com

All the best in natural health,

Dr. D

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Leptin and Fat Loss During the HCG Diet

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Leptin is the Master Fat Hormone, and it works by signaling the hypothalamus of the brain. The questions for fat loss now under study are starting to look at how leptin and HCG interact. The idea is that they may be using the same or similar brain receptors. It is a great topic for understanding more about how HCG works.

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Here is a great article that goes down the road of explaining leptin metabolism. Let me know if you have any questions, class!

Dr Mel Siff Discusses Leptin and Fat Loss

Here are some extracts from a highly informative article on leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells that influences energy expenditure and food intake.

All the best in fat loss,
Dr. D

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Medium Chain Triglyceride from Coconut Oil

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The medium chain triglyceride component from coconut oil offers health benefits, unlike other fats and oils from plants. MCT oil helps with weight loss, which makes it a beneficial component of phase III of the HCG diet and beyond. It even trumps other oils for cooking, especially the highly processed ones such as canola oil and corn oil and the high-smoke ones such as olive oil.

Here is an informative post on the topic that I found at the link below:

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Coconut Oil: Under Rated : Nutrition Nibbles

The MCFA (medium chain fatty acids) or MCT (medium chain triglycerides)  in coconut oil are different. Because of the small size of the fatty acids that make up coconut oil, they actually yield fewer calories than other fats.

All the best in natural health,
Dr. D

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Everything You Need To Know About Vitamin B-12

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So much misinformation! Ah, this is typical from supplement companies. Is vitamin B-12 an important supplement? It depends on how old you are. Whenever I want the lowdown on any kind of supplement, I can almost always find a very, very detailed analysis at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Scan this essay to get all of your questions answered about this all-important vitamin for the HCG diet protocol.

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminB12/

One major disappointment that I had early in my career in plant natural products chemistry was finding out that this vitamin is not derived from plants. Bacteria make plenty of it, though. If your friendly intestinal bacteria are healthy, you are probably getting at least a minimum amount into your system. However, the older you are, the more you will have to get of this vitamin from outside sources. Indeed, I found that 2500 to 5000 mcg helped me with low energy during the HCG protocol. Clinics that offer injections of B-12 are even better.

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HCG Diet Lotions And Make-up

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Cosmetics can stall your progress on the HCG diet, so here is what to do. HCG diet lotions are great. Keep in mind that oil is the enemy. Water-based lotions, cosmetics, cleansers, and other skincare products are fine.

One of the best kinds of advice that you can get is from someone who has used cosmetics during the HCG weight loss diet. As for me, the only skincare product that I used before doing the protocol was emu oil as an aftershave. During the protocol I simply stopped using it.

Many women, however, feel that just stopping the use of an oil-based product is unacceptable. So here, finally, is a line of skincare products specifically designed and approved for use during the HCG diet protocol. Take a look at their website by clicking on the image below:

Oil-Free HCG Diet Skincare

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Eating After HCG – My Favorite Breakfast

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The key to eating right in the first place is the same key to eating right after you finish an HCG diet series. I center my food choices around healthy protein and fat, with very little carb. This is what the research on obesity shows to be the best way to stop the process of storing fat. I’ll have to review that topic at another time, because so many people are deathly afraid of fat. Are you one of them?

Of course, let me say once again that the low-fat craze is the worst diet plague ever inflicted on humankind. The whole concept of low-fat anything is such dogma that doctors, nutritionists, and many others who ought to know better continue to repeat it mindlessly. It is just plain ridiculous.

Best Way to Start the Day

Best Breakfast After HCG DietHere is my favorite breakfast. Yes, you are seeing straight. That is a real nice rib-eye steak, accompanied by four eggs (fried in butter!). There is absolutely nothing wrong with this meal, and everything right with it. It has no effect on my cholesterol level, the amount of fat that I store in my body, or anything else that is supposed to be harmful. And it is delicious! (Lots of garlic on it, too.)

The [TAG-TEC]HCG weight loss diet[/TAG-TEC] would be completely unnecessary, and the [TAG-TEC]obesity epidemic[/TAG-TEC] would not exist, if more people ate more food like my favorite breakfast. Hey, I know the science behind these claims. The research goes back almost 200 years, and the truth of what I am saying here is crystal clear.

I hope this shakes you up enough to dig into the research yourself. You are going to be shocked when you get to the bottom of modern dietary mythologies and see how you’ve been misinformed for so long.

Eat steak! Eat all the eggs you want! Drown your food in real butter! It is all good.

Whew! Thanks for enjoying my semi-rant. There is a lot more where that came from. What fun!

All the best in natural health,

Dr. D

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