By now you’ve probably heard a lot about this amazing organic substance that is extracted from the African Hoodia Gordonii plant. Pure African Hoodia has been reported to do many things. The only thing it really does (and does very well), is reduce your appetite. Contrary to many myths Hoodia Gordonii won’t do sit-ups for you, or decide what you eat. It isn’t a weight loss supplement or a diet pill. It is an appetite suppressant. (And it’s a great appetite suppresant!) Period.

If you have a problem with always feeling hungry, or have wild cravings when you attempt a diet or weight loss program, Hoodia can help. After a few days you’ll notice that you aren’t “thinking about food” and fighting cravings all day!

If you would like to start a diet/workout program to lose a few pounds Hoodia Gordonii is a safe, natural way to eliminate those cravings and stop your mind from constantly thinking about food. That’s what it does, and that’s what you should expect when trying Hoodia. If you want to “forget about hunger” then Hoodia Gordonii will work for you. It won’t exercise for you, or cook a healthy meal plan for you, it will take away the most painful part of dieting, your CRAVINGS!!

Here are the 3 best Hoodia products we found available online today.

#1: Hoodia Balance     Nothing fancy here. Just real African Hoodia Gordonii extract that is verified by their C.I.T.E.S license. If you want to try Hoodia to see how effective it is in quashing your cravings and eliminating your hunger, this is the simplest, smartest way to try it.

#2: Hoodia Gordonii Plus     This product contains high grade, legitimate African Hoodia Gordonii as well. They have also included some other ingredients to gently raise your metabolism. If you want a supplement that will help you burn off a few pounds as well as eliminate your hunger, this is our recommendation. Top quality Hoodia extract and a metabolism booster. If you want a “little extra” with your Hoodia we suggest you investigate this product.

#3: Hoodia Chaser     This product is for those who like the convenience of a spray over a pill. Some people think that a spray will reduce the absorption time for the Hoodia to overcome any cravings or hunger quickly. We have read studies that argue that a spray might be better, and others that recommend a supplement. This is a high quality product, and if your preference is “spray over pill” you should try this.

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Take a pill and not feel hungry for 10-12 hours, possibly even more isn’t it amazing? At the same time you put off weight by losing the extra fat because of your low calorie intake.

Correspondents and Journalists who have been in South Africa studied the merits and the effects of Hoodia Gordonii.

So is Hoodia too good to be true?

I hope that you all have been heard about another weight loss wonder i.e. Ephedra. Several years back Ephedra was banned because it resulted in the death of many people who used it. Therefore the question that arises is: is it 100% safe to use Hoodia Gordonii?

Hoodia Safety

When the same question comes in your mind regarding Hoodia Gordonii, there is one good news and one bad news. Let us start with the good one.

What we know about Hoodia gordonii is as follows:

Native place of Hoodia Gordonii is South Africa and in ancient time the tribes used it to coup with their thirst and hunger, with no known side effects.

We know that Hoodia gordonii contains an active ingredient, which is responsible for its capacity to coup with thirst and hunger, known as P57. Researches were performed on some obese people and noted weight and fat loss with out any negative side effect.
The last and final thing we know is that it is not a stimulant like Ephedra or any other natural weight loss product that work on the fundament of increasing body’s metabolism and that’s why it does not give any side effects like high blood pressure, elevated heart rate, nervousness, nausea or vomiting.

Now it is time to know about bad news.

1) Still we need more researches to know sufficient about Hoodia.
2) Hoodia works on the principal of suppressing thirst and appetite, which can cause dehydration. So one should take enough water before taking a pill or capsule of Hoodia to coup with the condition of dehydration.
3) Hoodia can be dangerous to people with diabetes because diabetic patient may suffer from sudden fall in sugar level.
4) It is yet not known about the reaction of Hoodia gordonii with other drugs. So it is recommended to consult your physician before taking other drugs with Hoodia gordonii.

However, it is suggested to take proper advice of dietician and your personal doctor before taking Hoodia Gordonii; especially if you are using it with other allopathic drugs.

If you’re making the same deadly diet mistakes as most other people, you might lose some weight temporarily, but you’ll actually get fatter in the long run. Your body is just way too smart for these “ordinary” diets to ever work – you can’t fool a metabolic and hormonal system that’s the result of thousands of years of evolution – You have to work with your metabolism, not against it!

Frank Schliff
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/put-off-hunger-and-lose-extra-fat-119238.html

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One of the newest entries in the seemingly overcrowded weight loss field is the hoodia gordonii plant. It has been used for generations by bushmen in Africa to suppress hunger and appetite on long hunting trips.

By turning off your appetite, hoodia allows you to curb the amounts of food you are eating without making a great effort. You don’t think about eating, so you don’t eat. And as a nice side benefit, you lose weight.

Your late night cravings disappear. Your constant junk food snacking decreases. It’s almost as if someone magically gave you a will power transplant to monitor your food intake.

Hoodia has become so popular that you can find many brands selling in your neighborhood stores today. The theory is that Hoodia works by fooling your brain into believing that you are full. Some have found that using it decreased their caloric intake by as much as 1,000 calories a day.

But even though the Hoodia Gordonii plant has been proven to suppress the appetite, there are some caveats that you should be aware of before you try it yourself.

One is that it’s the plant itself that has been proven to suppress the appetite, not diet supplements developed from the plants. So although many people swear that Hoodia Gordonii has helped them to lose weight, there has yet to be an independent double blind study that will verify it’s weight loss prowess.

Two, scientists have been researching the Hoodia plant for almost a decade and so far have found that it doesn’t cause any harmful side effects. This is much more than can be said of fat burners such as ephedra which can be very dangerous, especially if you have any kind of heart condition.

Three, hoodia in its pure form has no stimulants. It will not make your heart race or cause other known side-effects. It will not give you the shakes, make your heart race or raise your body temperature

Four, the only hoodia that has been shown to suppress the appetite has been hoodia that is grown in the soils of Africa. If the company you are considering purchasing hoodia from does not certify that its hoodia originates from South Africa, you will not be getting what is considered “real” hoodia.

Will hoodia work for you? We don’t know. Our bodies all respond differently. We all have different experiences with foods, supplements, and drugs. Pure hoodia supplements are expensive. Fortunately, the better companies offer money back guarantees so you can try it and if it doesn’t work for you, simple send it back.

Janice Kaszursky
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/turn-off-your-appetite-the-easy-way-98142.html

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Glucomannan is a water soluble polysaccharide that is considered a dietary fiber. Clinical studies have shown the potential health benefits of glucomannan in constipation, obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, cholesterol and other lipids.

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Hoodia Gordonii is a leafless spiny succulent plant with medicinal uses. It gros naturally in South Africa and Namibia.

Medicinal uses of Hoodia

Long been used for treating indigestion and small infections by the people of Southern Africa.
In 1977, South African Counsil of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) isolated the ingredients in hoodia which is now known as P 57, which is responsible for its appetite-suppressant effect.
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If you’re on the Internet searching for hoodia, it’s almost impossible to know you’re buying the real deal. There are simply far too many con artists on the loose, and they know that people are desperate for hoodia. Everybody wants to lose weight, right?

But beware! If I were you, I wouldn’t buy from just anybody. It’s hard to know who to trust in this emerging, high-profit business. Anybody can throw powder into a capsule and claim it’s hoodia, but can they prove it? We only use 100% pure South African Hoodia from the Kalahari Desert in Hoodia Gordonii Plus and are proud to display the certificates to prove it. Hoodia is licensed by the Western Cape Conservation Authority of South Africa and is certified to be 100% Authentic. There are two certified documents required to prove the authenticity of pure South African Hoodia. They are the C.I.T.E.S Certificate and the Analytical Report.

Benefits of using Hoodia Gordonii are by far more prominent than what it used to be in the past. Hoodia pills have been enriched to have some particular effects in the area of weight-loss. Compared to health foods available right now in the market, Hoodia has more health benefits and hence widely accepted. Remember that while using the Hoodia Pills method, you are not going on a diet; Hoodia simply decreases your appetite. You don’t feel hungry and it keeps you healthy and energetic at the same time. A pure Gordonii has no stimulants and harmful side effects.

So far no adverse effects of Hoodia Gordonii have been reported; in fact it has been in the African food chain for many years. Some of the world’s oldest and most prehistoric tribes in Africa had been eating raw Hoodia for thousands of years to compensate their hunger during their long hunting trips. Even local tribes, whose ancestors have been using the plant for thousands of years, confirm that there are no negative side effects with Hoodia Gordonii.

Hence it has been established as a food and not a medicine in South Africa. The only side effect that Hoodia Gordonii has will cause your brain to believe that you are full even without the sufficient amount of food ingested. This could be a problem if you need the energy and power to do some arduous activities.

The great concern associated with Hoodia is if it is ill treated by individuals with eating disorders for want of rapid weight lose depriving the body of the necessary nutrients. A suggested warning that comes with Hoodia Gordonii product as a dietary supplement would be. Not to be used in childhood, pregnancy, or lactating mothers – not to be used by individuals with eating disorder – or those who are underweight or within a normal weight range.

Frank Schliff
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/glamor-picture-inflated-promises-119217.html

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As Reported by CBS: Each year, people spend more than $40 billion on products designed to help them slim down. None of them seem to be working very well.

Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it. Soon it’ll be tripping off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.

It’s very different from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia doesn’t stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by making you think you are full, even if you’ve eaten just a morsel. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports.

“Hoodia, a plant that tricks the brain by making the stomach feel full, has been in the diet of South Africa’s Bushmen for thousands of years.” Because the only place in the world where hoodia grows wild is in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.

Nigel Crawhall, a linguist and interpreter, hired an experienced tracker named Toppies Kruiper, a local aboriginal Bushman, to help find it. The Bushmen were featured in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Kruiper led 60 Minutes crews out into the desert. Stahl asked him if he ate hoodia. “I really like to eat them when the new rains have come,” says Kruiper, speaking through the interpreter. “Then they’re really quite delicious.”

When we located the plant, Kruiper cut off a stalk that looked like a small spiky pickle, and removed the sharp spines. In the interest of science, Stahl ate it. She described the taste as “a little cucumbery in texture, but not bad.”

So how did it work? Stahl says she had no after effects no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn’t hungry all day, even when she would normally have a pang around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the entire day. “I’d have to say it did work,” says Stahl.

Although the West is just discovering hoodia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari have been eating it for a very long time. After all, they have been living off the land in southern Africa for more than 100,000 years.

Some of the Bushmen, like Anna Swartz, still live in old traditional huts, and cook so-called Bush food gathered from the desert the old-fashioned way.
The first scientific investigation of the plant was conducted at South Africa’s national laboratory. Because Bushmen were known to eat hoodia, it was included in a study of indigenous foods.

“What they found was when they fed it to animals, the animals ate it and lost weight,” says Dr. Richard Dixey, who heads an English pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm that is trying to develop weight-loss products based on hoodia.

Was hoodia’s potential application as an appetite suppressant immediately obvious? “No, it took them a long time. In fact, the original research was done in the mid 1960s,” says Dixey.

It took the South African national laboratory 30 years to isolate and identify the specific appetite-suppressing ingredient in hoodia. When they found it, they applied for a patent and licensed it to Phytopharm.

Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million so far on research, including clinical trials with obese volunteers that have yielded promising results. Subjects given hoodia ended up eating about 1,000 calories a day less than those in the control group. To put that in perspective, the average American man consumes about 2,600 calories a day; a woman about 1,900.

“If you take this compound every day, your wish to eat goes down. And we’ve seen that very, very dramatically,” says Dixey.

But why do you need a patent for a plant? “The patent is on the application of the plant as a weight-loss material. And, of course, the active compounds within the plant. It’s not on the plant itself,” says Dixey.
So no one else can use hoodia for weight loss? “As a weight-management product without infringing the patent, that’s correct,” says Dixey.

But what does that say about all these weight-loss products that claim to have hoodia in it? Trimspa says its X32 pills contain 75 mg of hoodia. The company is pushing its product with an ad campaign featuring Anna Nicole Smith, even though the FDA has notified Trimspa that it hasn’t demonstrated that the product is safe.

Some companies have even used the results of Phytopharm’s clinical tests to market their products.
“This is just straightforward theft. That’s what it is. People are stealing data, which they haven’t done, they’ve got no proper understanding of, and sticking on the bottle,” says Dixey. “When we have assayed these materials, they contain between 0.1 and 0.01 percent of the active ingredient claimed. But they use the term hoodia on the bottle, of course, so they — does nothing at all.”

But Dixey isn’t the only one who felt ripped off. The Bushmen first heard the news about the patent when Phytopharm put out a press release. Roger Chennells, a lawyer in South Africa who represents the Bushmen, who are also called the San, was appalled. “The San did not even know about it,” says Chennells. “They had given the information that led directly toward the patent.”

The taking of traditional knowledge without compensation is called bio-piracy “You have said, and I’m going to quote you, ‘that the San felt as if someone had stolen the family silver,’” says Stahl to Chennells. “So what did you do?”

“I wouldn’t want to go into some of the details as to what kind of letters were written or what kind of threats were made,” says Chennells. “We engaged them. They had done something wrong, and we wanted them to acknowledge it.”

Chennells was determined to help the Bushmen who, he says, have been exploited for centuries. First they were pushed aside by black tribes. Then, when white colonists arrived, they were nearly annihilated.

“About the turn of the century, there were still hunting parties in Namibia and in South Africa that allowed farmers to go and kill Bushmen,” says Chennells. “It’s well documented.”

The Bushmen are still stigmatized in South Africa, and plagued with high unemployment, little education, and lots of alcoholism. And now, it seemed they were about to be cut out of a potential windfall from hoodia. So Chennells threatened to sue the national lab on their behalf.

“We knew that if it was successful, many, many millions of dollars would be coming towards the San,” says Chennells. “Many, many millions. They’ve talked about the market being hundreds and hundreds of millions in America.” In the end, a settlement was reached. The Bushmen will get a percentage of the profits — if there are profits. But that’s a big if.

The future of hoodia is not yet a sure thing. The project hit a major snag last year. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which had teamed up with Phytopharm, and funded much of the research, dropped out when making a pill out of the active ingredient seemed beyond reach.

Dixey says it can be made synthetically: “We’ve made milligrams of it. But it’s very expensive. It’s not possible to make it synthetically in what’s called a scaleable process. So we couldn’t make a metric ton of it or something that is the sort of quantity you would need to actually start doing something about obesity in thousands of people.”

Phytopharm decided to market hoodia in its natural form, in diet shakes and bars. That meant it needed the hoodia plant itself. But given the obesity epidemic in the United States, it became obvious that what was needed was a lot of hoodia – much more than was growing in the wild in the Kalahari. And so they came here.

60 Minutes visited one of Phytopharm’s hoodia plantations in South Africa. They’ll need a lot of these plantations to meet the expected demand. Agronomist Simon MacWilliam has a tall order: grow a billion portions a year of hoodia, within just a couple of years. He admitted that starting up the plantation has been quite a challenge.

“The problem is we’re dealing with a novel crop. It’s a plant we’ve taken out of the wild and we’re starting to grow it,’ says MacWilliam. “So we have no experience. So it’s different diseases and pests which we have to deal with.” How confident are they that they will be able to grow enough? “We’re very confident of that,” he says. “We’ve got an expansion program which is going to be 100s of acres. And we’ll be able ready to meet the demand.

This could be huge, given the obesity epidemic. Phytopharm says it’s about to announce marketing plans that will have meal-replacement hoodia products on supermarket shelves by 2008. MacWilliam says these products are a slightly different species from the hoodia Stahl tasted in the Kalahari Desert. “It’s actually a lot more bitter than the plant that you tasted,” says MacWilliam.

The advantage is this species of hoodia will grow a lot faster. But more bitter? How bad could it be? Stahl decided to find out. “Not good,” she says. Phytopharm says that when its product gets to market, it will be certified safe and effective. They also promise that it’ll taste good.

Frank Schliff
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/40-billion-market-of-products-designed-to-help-people-get-slim-119242.html

When discussing the potential dangers of hoodia we can look at the San Bushmen of South Africa. They have been using this cactus-like plant to suppress appetite for many centuries to stave off hunger during hunting trips with no reported side effects of hoodia. The Bushmen’s use of hoodia, however, has been much different than the modern use of hoodia supplements.

The Bushmen use hoodia in its raw, natural form. They literally cut a piece of the plant, peel it, and then eat it. This is a lot different than popping hoodia supplements, where the hoodia has been processed and is in powder form. That being said, there are no known dangers of hoodia supplements to date.

Hoodia supplements haven’t been around that long so the jury is still out on the side effects of hoodia supplements over the long term. Anyone considering taking them should keep a careful eye out for any new studies and research for any potential dangers of hoodia that might arise down the road.

When hoodia first appeared on the scene, many people were concerned that the dangers of hoodia would rival those of Ephedra – a weight loss supplement associated with serious and life-threatening side effects. This proved not to be the case, however, for one simple fact: hoodia is not a stimulant like Ephedra.

There are no dangers of hoodia because of the simplicity of how it works. Hoodia works as a weight loss supplement by suppressing your appetite. The active ingredient in Hoodia, P57, essentially tricks the hypothalamus-the part of the brain responsible for telling you that you’re hungry or full.

When you eat, the food in your body is broken down to sugar. When that happens, the sensors in the hypothalamus recognize the sugar in your body and begins to shut down your desire to eat. That’s why you feel full after you eat. P57, on the other hand, is 10,000 times more powerful than blood sugar on the hypothalamus! As a result, without eating any food, hoodia is able to trick your brain into thinking it has consumed large amounts of food, thus shutting down your desire to eat.

Even though hoodia seems harmless and there are no known dangers of hoodia supplements, their safety has not been determined when it comes to women who are pregnant or nursing. As with all supplements and medications, it is essential that pregnant and nursing women discuss the potential side effects of hoodia with their doctors before considering using them.

It is also important for those considering hoodia supplements to avoid taking too much. Even though there are no known dangers of hoodia supplements, moderation is the key. Perhaps one of the side effects of hoodia supplements is the potential to under-eat. If you take too many, it’s possible your appetite could be suppressed to the point where you don’t get enough food (i.e. calories) for your body to function properly!

One last note on the dangers of hoodia supplements; they are no substitute for a healthy, balanced diet. Do not rely solely on hoodia supplements for weight loss. The primary purpose of using hoodia supplements is to prevent you from overeating-not starve your body completely of much needed calories and nutrients. To get the most from hoodia supplements, use them as part of a weight loss program that consists of a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise.

Travis Van Slooten
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/the-dangers-of-hoodia-should-you-be-concerned-66972.html