Dr. Albert Theodore William Simeons (1900 in London – 1970 in Rome) was the leading exponent of a weight-loss protocol based on human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). In 1954, he published a book called "Pounds and Inches", and a paper in the Lancet on his theories. Scientific consensus does not support Simeons's claims, finding no weight loss attributable to the use of hCG. Publications The Mask of a Lion, 1952 (a novel) Pounds & Inches a New Approach to Obesity, 1954 Man's Presumptuous Brain: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Psychosomatic Disease, 1961 Food: Facts, Foibles & Fables: The Origins of Human Nutrition, 1968 References 1900 births 1970 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors British endocrinologists Diet food advocates Heidelberg University alumni