The following is an e-mail from one of my employees that even more solidifies how desperate people

can get to lose weight. Think of the risks of ordering something from the internet that you have no idea

where it is coming from and then you will inject into your body what you are assuming is HcG.

Then on top of all of that why on earth would you inject the Human Pregnancy Hormone into your body?

There are very few medical indications to EVER use HcG. But to actually think that being injected with

Hcg is something to use for weight loss and then to get it from the internet without even having a medical

professional monitoring it is so incredibly dangerous.

What you are also suppose to do is go on a starvation diet of 500 calories per day. So if there was

a 25 pound weight loss in 25 days do you actually think it was fat? It was water and muscle loss. Again there

have been multiple clinical studies that show no scientific backing for this type of diet.

For more information please read my other blog about the Hcg Diet Scam at http://www.carbessentials.net/low_carb_diet_blog/?p=22

Hi Dr.Powell,

I had a customer come into https://www.Carbessentials.net today who had never been in before looking for

“low carb” items to assist her after her 25 day HCG diet plan. She said

that she lost 25 pounds in 25 days and she said that it really keeps the

fat off of her. What struck me as really disturbing about her story was

that she ordered all of her products online. It came with needles and

everything. I went to look up the site online and anyone can purchase the

HCG right from the website. They have this information on their home page:

“TotalHcgDiet is the most trusted site for

your HCG diet needs. You can purchase everything you need for your HCG

diet now in the convenience of one location. TotalHcgDiet makes

it so simple and affordable to start your HCG protocol. We take

care of everything, so you don’t have to!

*Complete Mixing Instructions

*Real, natural HCG in stock, provided by a 3rd party vendor

*All HCG and Supplies for a 23 or 43 day diet

* 2 Needle Size Options-X-small or Large

*Highest Quality Supplies

*Free Reference Tools(A must have!)

*Free Priority Shipping in U.S.”

The links attached go on to tell “FAQs” about HCG but the whole page is

all about how fast you can loose weight and keep it off etc.

I just thought you should know that this “HCG diet” is as simple as ordering

online and it is disturbing to me that there are no precautionary measures

taken place. They don’t even have you verify if you are 18 years of age

or older, as long as you have some sort of credit card you can receive

this product. I just wanted to give you a heads up about this issue.

Thank you and have a great day,

Lindsy

There is so much confusion about what is Low Carb or Net Carbs or Low Sugar. There is no set definition by the FDA for Low Carbohydrates. There is a specific definition for Low Sodium and Very Low Sodium but not for carbohydrates.

So here is our concept on carbohydrates at Carbessentials.net.

On a label you will have Carbohydrates listed. Underneath that, indented, are the items that make up the carbohydrates. There will be sugars, sugar alcohols, and fiber. Net Carbs is when you take the Total Carbohydrates and subtract the items that do not affect blood sugars. This will be the fiber and the sugar alcohols and what is left are the Net Carbs. Net Carbs affect blood sugars.

Example Carbohydrates: 20 grams
Sugars: 12 grams
Fiber: 3 grams
Sugar Alcohols: 5 grams
Net Carbs = 20 grams - (3F + 5SA) = 12 grams net carbs.

It can get rather complicated and the more math you have to do the more complicated it becomes.

But what if all the numbers underneath the Total Carbohydrates do not add up to the totals?  That is when it gets even more confusing. I talked to one of the nutritional manufacturers we use and he explained it like this.  There are other items within the carbohydrate family that are not required to be listed if they don’t add up to an appreciable amount (greater than 1 gram).  There can be several of these items and they can add up to several grams of carbohydrates but they are not required to be listed.  These are carbohydrates that do not affect your blood sugars.  Examples of these type of ingredients are sugar alcohols, glycerin, tapioca starch, potato starch, and I am sure many more.

So what we have done at Carbessentials is culled out all of our products that have 5 grams of sugar or less. So when you see the Low Sugar list you will know that it means: 5 grams of sugar or less.

These specialty lists that we have created truly put Carbessentials.net at a higher level than any other      on-line nutritional site. It is a labor of love for us.

These are being added to the Carbessentials.net website under the heading of Low Sugar Sneals.

I was amazed when I looked at myself when I was 38 years old and I was 250 pounds. I was at least 75 pounds over weight. I hated myself. I looked at my wife and wondered,  ”how she could have been attracted to me when I was so fat.” My back was always killing me and I could not even keep up with my 5 kids.

I was in my second year of my Emergency Medicine Residency. Yes, a doctor who is morbidly obese. How can that happen? Aren’t doctors supposed to know how to stay healthy? Aren’t doctors taught everything there is about nutrition?

The reality of it is that I, like most of us, had been hit with multiple stressors over several years. To include becoming a disabled United States Air Force Veteran, a herniated L5-S1 vertebral disc, a reconstructed ankle, getting divorced and remarried, moving from Charleston, South Carolina to Lubbock, Texas, starting medical school, graduating after 4 years of grueling school and then moving to Columbia, South Carolina and at this point in time 2 years of grueling Emergency Medicine Residency and the birth of two of my 6 total children. There were a lot of great times and some very hard times. But life as we all live it is never stress free. When we are stressed two things immediately get pushed aside, how we eat or how feed us and how we “move our bodies” (exercise).

As I looked at myself in the mirror one day and said, “I can’t do this anymore.” I realized after 6 years of medical training I had no clue what to do about my nutrition. Should I do a “Low-Carb Diet”?. Should I do a “Low-Fat Diet”?. Should I do a “High-Protein Diet”?. Most doctor, according to a recent Congressional hearing, get less than 3 hours of nutritional education in their entire 4 years of medical training. Most people spend that amount of time watching TV each and every day!!! So I tried Atkins (Low Carb), Sugar-Busters, Slim Fast, The Zone and essentially lost a little bit of weight but then put it right back on.

I started to learn and research everything I could find about nutrition and the science of Obesity and how to treat it. Yes, OBESITY, that is what I have as a diagnosis. I will always have it. Obesity has been defined by just about every medical organization including the World Health Organization as a Chronic Relapsing Medical Disease and I have it.

As I start these Podcasts/Blogs I will explain to you the concepts I have learned about treating myself and thousands of patients for Obesity. The science of nutrition, what is the right combination of Protein, Carbohydrates and Fats. How much and when should your nutrition be eaten. It is not as easy and many people think. If it was we would not have a country and world that has become obese.

After I realized how little I knew about my own nutrition and treating patients for Obesity for several years. I realized that all these patients had one thing in common. They need to be shown what, when, and how to eat. For myself as well as my patients there were several common themes. Not eating often enough, Not eating enough, and a term called Food Amnesia. The beginning of my concept for “CarbEssentials” was born.

Read On!!.