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HCG Drops Aren't Effective For Weight Loss, Experts Say

Posted 03.26.2012 | Healthy Living

To lose weight, some people are still buying into HCG drops and injections, which have received criticism from the FDA because they aren't proven to h...

HCG Diet: Junk Science That Just Won't Go Away

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 10.29.2011 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

While art, fashion and nightlife inspired by the past may be a "do," doowop-era fad diets are a don't. Specifically, I'm talking about one idea born in the 1950s that keeps coming back into fashion: the HCG diet.

The Taste of Summer: Cucumber Citrus Salad

Marilinda Hodgdon | Posted 10.08.2011 | Home
Marilinda Hodgdon

2011-08-08-Screenshot20110808at5.22.54PM.jpgWherever you procure your fresh produce, salads festooned with leafy herbs and fruity vinegars are a no fuss, low calorie answer to light and flavor-filled summer eating.

Are Weight Loss And Common Sense At War?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 06.25.2011 | Home
David Katz, M.D.

I am surprised, and even more so concerned, about how readily people with good common sense switch it off when it comes to weight control and the illusory promise of a quick fix.

The hCG Diet: What Goes Around Comes Around

Susan Yager | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Susan Yager

hCG for weight loss, an idea that originated in the 1950s and became a popular fad in the 1970s, is back.

Weekly Pulse: Japan's Nuclear Crisis Deepens

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger A second reactor unit at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan may have ruptured, authorities...

hCG 'Diet' Controversy

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The hCG "Diet" has been stirring quite a bit of controversy after Dr. Oz took a closer examination of the already controversial weight-loss program. ...

Dear Marty Fleck: Too Early for Juice?

Bill Scheft | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Bill Scheft

My son Larry is 13 years old, a straight-A student and captain of his junior high school baseball team. When and how should I talk with him about taking female fertility drugs?