Hcg American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition

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AMERICAN

JOURNAL

OF June,

(LINICAL

NUTRITION

Vol.

22,

No.

6,

1969, zn

PP.

686695

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Special

Article

Chorionic
Further

Gonadotropin
Clinical
A.

in Obesity

Observations
GUSMAN,

HARRY

M.D.1

Sciences arc judged by their fruits and in medical practice the outcome of a treatment is no less a test of the doctor’s use of hisconceptual scheme than is the outcome of a laboratory experiment a test of the theory of the experiment.
Lord Bacon (1)

remember proaches search ment not past

some

I have for a of obesity

of been

the far-fetched willing to try in I know that any the that until matter

in

apthe

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breakthrough (2), and

treatI am the howalone. decade,

Suffice it to say no technique-no brought research much in the evidence

It is universally overweight erature

acknowledged handicap. insurance

that

to be

imaginative-has success. Although has developed

significant

is a serious abounds with

The litstatistics

which show that the death rate is higher among the obese of every age group. No informed personwould deny that obesity is a cause for concern or that it is a legitimate-even essential-subject for much further scientific and clinical investigation. The truth is that science has not yet produced an explanation for the disease, and obesity remains puzzling subjects in cine. At a time of successfully heart, it pricked seemingly is only when simple one of the practice the of most medi-

past 20years to refute the

traditional concepts of the cause of obesity, most physicians have clung to the view that obesity is caused by overeating, pure and simple, i.e., greater than energy. Naturally, the intake of calories as food the expenditure of calories the treatment offered by these is as

when medicine transplanting

can boast a human ego is the some

physicians consists of a reduceddiet, a lecture on self-discipline, haps some medication. Otherwise, control has been relegated to

calorie and perweight a “do-it-

natural that our we cannot answer question of why

people get fat. The result is that a subject that is, in fact, still enshrouded in mystery calls forth many dogmatic and doctrinaire pronouncements from people otherwise famous for professional caution. It overis a little embarrassing my 40 years of medical
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yourself” project. Some have treated it as a moral problem rather than a medical problem, verbally punishing the patient for alleged deviation from the diet and thus adding more guilt guilt-laden obese patient. This treatment most cases, and it produces has give sionally up treating there The is is doomedthe inevitable caused many obesity a tendency been subtly-other result has to the to already in to dis-

to look practice

back and

failure frustration physicians even to

altogether.

Occaphysicians a flourish-

1Present
Shaker Heights,

Boulevard,

parage-albeit who persist.

Chorionic ing of fad diets and parascientific of metabolism. I am one of the diehards who to treat thecondition seriously. that obesity is more than a simple ance of the caloric balance sheet there During ing Dr. is a more the obesity A. T. past intricate 10 years process
I have

Gonadotropin theories continue I believe disturband that at
been

in facts, cable easily

Obesity

687 afford a precise, replithe results of which are In my judgment, Dr. satisfies Dr. the he which all Simeons’theoretical developed of these method framethe re-

and should technique, assessed. method understand must out appreciate of

Simeons’ quirements. To one work technique.

work.
treat-

with a method developed by W. Simeons (3) that uses human (HCG). patients I of have both

chorionic treated

gonadotropin well over 2,500

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