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HCG Diet for Cleansing and Fast Weight Loss

The HCG Diet as a Cleanse and Detox!

April 12, 2019 4:36 pm Published by Comments Off on The HCG Diet as a Cleanse and Detox!

  The HCG Diet is a wonderful cleansing program with the side effect of losing weight.  It is amazing what happens when you narrow down your food choices and eat simply for 21 + days.  When patients choose to use the HCG Diet as a cleanse, I put them on our body composition analyzer to be... Read More

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The History of the HCG Diet for Weight Loss

April 6, 2019 2:59 pm Published by Comments Off on The History of the HCG Diet for Weight Loss

I am very thankful to the amazing Dr. A. Simeons MD who was a British physician, practicing in Rome.  Dr. Simeons specialized in the treatment of young boys with Froelicks syndrome. These boys were not developing their secondary sexual characteristics and had a “female” pattern of weight distribution. He was using HCG (an FDA approved... Read More

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A Patient Experience with the HCG Diet Program

March 31, 2019 1:34 pm Published by Comments Off on A Patient Experience with the HCG Diet Program

“Dr. Madda & Dr. Phillipo are amazing doctors and incredible facilitators of the HCG Diet & weight loss program.” After many years of struggling to lose weight, a friend told me about the HCG Diet that a friend of hers had just completed. The more information I gathered and learned about this HCG Diet and weight loss process the... Read More

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The Most Common Errors Made on Phase 2 of the HCG Diet

March 26, 2019 1:14 pm Published by Comments Off on The Most Common Errors Made on Phase 2 of the HCG Diet

The HCG Diet is a bit finicky and truly does need to be followed as outlined to have the magnificent and lasting results had by so many.  I have worked hard over the past decade to conduct many clinical trials with my patient population to be able to expand on the Phase 2 food list... Read More

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HCG DIET & WEIGHT LOSS : a physician supervised weight loss program

March 20, 2019 12:45 pm Published by Comments Off on HCG DIET & WEIGHT LOSS : a physician supervised weight loss program

At the Natural Path, in Portland, Oregon we offer a wonderful medically supervised HCG Diet program. The unique HCG diet protocol we have in our office holds a siilar structure as Dr. Simeons original program although over the last decade, Dr. Cara has worked hard with clinical trials to add more food choices and food strategies into... Read More

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Misconceptions about the HCG Diet Program

March 14, 2019 11:50 am Published by Comments Off on Misconceptions about the HCG Diet Program

I have to admit that as a Naturopathic Physician hearing about the HCG Diet for the first time I had a great deal of judgment.  Until I got ALL of the information and studied about how this program worked I did not feel it was a very safe plan. After spending years studying the diet and its... Read More

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The Benefits of Losing Weight through the HCG Diet

March 8, 2019 11:24 am Published by Comments Off on The Benefits of Losing Weight through the HCG Diet

Many of our patients come to us after trying almost every diet ever created!  They come with some hope that maybe the HCG Diet will truly help them with their weight loss battle.  As they jump into the program and begin seeing results,  they are happier than ever!  Most of those who have come through the Natural Path... Read More

HCG Diet for Cleansing and Fast Weight Loss

Oh, the Plateau! How to Manage Stalls on the HCG Diet Protocol

March 2, 2019 2:32 pm Published by Comments Off on Oh, the Plateau! How to Manage Stalls on the HCG Diet Protocol

Stalls or staying the same weight for a few days can be physiologically NORMAL. We all have this idea that if you are eating a certain way and limiting calories, then the weight should just fall off little by little each day. If only it was so predictable!  Calories in, calories out is  simply not... Read More

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The Importance of Hydration on the HCG Diet Plan

February 26, 2019 2:29 pm Published by Comments Off on The Importance of Hydration on the HCG Diet Plan

Water is truly essential on a weight loss program and especially on the HCG Diet protocol.  In medical school, we were taught to suggest half of your body weight in ounces each day for optimal function.  On the HCG Diet, we are mobilizing fat stores and unfortunately, our fat stores can be reserves for toxins... Read More

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An Amazing HCG Diet Experience

February 21, 2019 12:02 pm Published by Comments Off on An Amazing HCG Diet Experience

I began the HCG Diet program last January!  I was 100 lbs over weight and was ready to get it off. For years, I had thought the HCG Diet sounded really drastic and just was not something that sounded right to me. After months of trying EVERYTHING to get the weight off I was not... Read More