Heel Pain

You know how the Pounds & Inches book reported that heel pain just sort of disappears when following this protocol? I can now testify to that fact. For YEARS, my left heel hurt - an unexplainable "no idea where it came from or how to correct it" heel pain. It's gone now. I started noticing it going away about a week ago, but this morning, it's just no longer there.

From Pounds and Inches regarding this subject:

The Painful Heel

In obese patients who have been trying desperately to keep their

weight down by severe dieting, a curious symptom sometimes occurs.

They complain of an unbearable pain in their heels which they feel only

while standing or walking. As soon as they take the weight off their

heels the pain ceases. These cases are the bane of the

rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons who have treated them

before they come to us. All the usual investigations are entirely

negative, and there is not the slightest response to anti- rheumatic

medication or physiotherapy. The pain may be so severe that the

patients are obliged to give up their occupation, and they are not

infrequently labeled as a case of

hysteria. When their heels are carefully examined one finds that the

sole is softer than normal and that the heel bone - the calcaneus - can

be distinctly felt, which is not the case in a normal foot.

We interpret the condition as a lack of the hard fatty pad on which the

calcaneus rests and which protects both the bone and the skin of the

sole from pressure. This fat is like a springy cushion which carries the

weight of the body. Standing on a heel in which this fat is missing or

reduced must obviously be very painful. In their efforts to keep their

weight down these patients have consumed this normal structural fat.

Those patients who have a normal or subnormal weight while showing

the typically obese fat deposits are made to eat to capacity, often

much against their will, for one week. They gain weight rapidly but

there is no improvement in the painful heels. They are then started on

the routine HCG treatment. Overweight patients are treated

immediately. In both cases the pain completely disappears in 10-20

days of dieting, usually around the 15th day of treatment, and so far

no case has had a relapse, though we have been able to follow up such

patients for years.

We are particularly interested in these cases, as they furnish further

proof of the contention that HCG + 500 Calories not only removes

abnormal fat but actually permits normal fat to be replaced, in spite of

the deficient food intake. It is certainly not so that the mere loss of

weight reduces the pain, because it frequently disappears before the

weight the patient had prior to the period of forced feeding is reached.