subject: Urine injections for new weight loss fad? [print this page] Urine injections for new weight loss fad?
If you think you've heard it all before, you just might be surprised by the recent buzz in the news about a new diet plan that involves urine injections.. That's right, urine!
First reports of a woman named Sheryl Paloni's weight loss on an unorthodoxed diet surfaced at The Boston Channel and the story was later picked up by the respected, Globe and Mail among other news outlets. Apparently, Ms. Paloni lost a whopping 43 lbs and 30 inches since June of this year.
How did she do it? This new' diet fad involves daily injections of urine from pregnant women alone with a radical 500 calorie per day diet.
"I thought, My goodness, you could lose a pound a day just taking a shot? I'm going to find out about this,'" Sheryl Paloni told The Boston Channel.
At the Boston Channel, Iris McCarthy of Success Weight Loss System attributed the diet's success due to the "human coriogonic gotrophin." Don't worry if you're scratching your head trying to figure out what "human coriogonic gotrophin" is because it appears that someone doesn't know how to spell, human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG).
Though there's been some recent buzz surrounding this proposed weight loss agent, its use has been popular since before 1990. Even back then, people were using intramuscular injections of HCG despite the lack of evidence for its effectiveness [1-3]. The HCG diet itself has apparently been around for over 60 years, but has experienced a resurgence in popularity following the release of one of Kevin Trudeau's books, ("The Weight Loss Cure They don't Want You to Know About.")
