HOUSTON The HCG Diet a crash diet that supposedly tricks your body into thinking you re pregnant so you ll burn calories faster is gaining popularity again. And while some tout it as a great tool for ...

Is the hCG diet a safe, healthy and effective way to drop pounds? Or is it a gimmicky, unhealthy and even unsafe regimen that doesn’t help its followers achieve long-term weight loss? Many experts ...

Clinics that promise quick and easy weight loss through the use of a drug called HCG continue to do a brisk business in Central Texas. But according to a new policy paper from a national association ...

After her first daughter, 51-year-old Debbie Bakeman of Burbank said she packed on the pounds, eventually weighing more than 200 pounds. She went to a weight loss clinic and tried a low calorie diet ...

The key ingredient is called HCG. It's a hormone used in fertility treatments and found naturally in the bodies of pregnant women. The hormone helps ensure a developing baby gets enough calories in ...

Steer clear, needle-phobes: This eight-week diet, which originally hit the weight-loss scene back in the 1970s, combines injections of human chorionic gonadotropin. Steer clear, needle-phobes: This ...