HCG Diet: Is It Safe?

Go on a simple diet for 30 days and lost a pound or two a day. Seems like a dream to one with lifestyle changes like losing weight and struggling ... Is not it?
Recent weight loss of the controversial solutions include the HCG diet that a dose of HCG (gonadotrophin chorionic human) hormone every day - either by mouth or by injection - and turned it into a meal of 500 calories or less . HCG diet plan suggests that the dieter eats only a few ounces of meat, vegetables and food services every day. The intention of the hormone itself to suppress and prevent the starvation of the body into "starvation mode."
MCG - the hormone produced naturally by women, used the issue of fertility in women and treatment of endocrine glands in boys pre-adolescence. Remain divided by doctors and dietitians in the diet of HCG is effective in the long term, if medically safe to begin with (the Haitian Coast Guard and approved by the FDA not to lose weight). Those who tout the diet promotes weight loss and efficiency of the bottom line. But those talks at this stage that everyone consumes only 500 calories a day to lose weight - and the loss of food.
"It is reckless and irresponsible, and quite logical," Peter Cohen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Yu Q. News and World Report diet HCG. "You can lose weight in this session? But this is mainly because you consume hardly any calories. And will not get the benefit of the past."
So you think this diet sounds safe? Is it worth the risk, especially for people who need radical reform of lifestyle for health reasons to do? Or, we should all just stick to the methods (although slow in many cases) of the tried and true weight loss - eating a balanced diet and exercise?
We have a number of readers, here is what they had to say:
Tenisha C. I will try in any way. Still ... The idea of ​​pregnancy, hormones, eating only 500 calories a day is very upset.