HCG Diet Products Are Fraud, Says FDA

There are tons of diet pill pages on the internet prosthelytizing the wonders of the miracle diet drug HCG, or "human chorionic gonadotropin." You have the usual "before" and "after" pictures where you get to play that fun game of trying to figure out if they're actually two different people, and the promises of losing 30 pounds in 4 weeks. Only problem is that HCG doesn't work for weight loss, and an FDA exec says they may even be illegal and fraudulent. Quelle surprise!

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