Monthly Archives: March 2011

While You’re Waiting…

… For Part IV, here’s some food for thought: an excerpt from Gary Taube’s recent article on Slate (http://hive.slate.com/hive/time-to-trim/article/its-not-about-the-calories) entitled It’s Not About The Calories. For readers not familiar with Gary Taubes, he’s the award-winning medical and science journalist at … Continue reading

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HCG Diet Analysis, Part III

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi HCG Diet Analysis, Part III Wherein we prod, poke, examine, analyze, diagnose and then finally lay to rest the theory that … Continue reading

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HCG Diet Analysis, Part II

HCG Diet Analysis, Part II “They say: ‘You really need a high level of proof to change the recommendations,’ which is ironic because they never had a high level of proof to set them.” — Walter Willett, Harvard Professor of … Continue reading

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HCG Diet Analysis, Part I

INTRODUCTION Dr. Simeons, a British physician practicing in Rome, first wrote Pounds & Inches (more like a pamphlet at forty-nine pages) that outlined his diet in 1954. The book went through seven more editions, the last published in 1971. The … Continue reading

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