Hoodia Weight Loss
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April 8th 2006
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Hoodia has been available in pill form for quite some time now, but
recently it became available as a patch as well. The drug works
differently than stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned
because of their dangerous side effects. Hoodia fools your brain into
making you think that you are full.
The nicotine patch has been available for smokers looking to quit,
Ritalin is now available in patch form, and now we are seeing ads for
hoodia patches. Hoodia is a natural substance that has been featured on
both 60 Minutes and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Hoodia is a bitter tasting cactus like plant that grows in the Kalahari
Desert in South Africa. Leslie Stahl of 60 minutes traveled to the
Kalahari Desert to report on the subject. She had a guide cut off a
piece of the hoodia plant so she cold taste it.
According to Stahl it had no after effects – no funny taste in her
mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. But here is the amazing
part: “She also wasn't hungry all day, even when she would normally
have a pang around mealtime.” She had no desire to eat or drink the
entire day. She said “I'd have to say it did work”.
The diet business is estimated to be a $40 billion a year industry. Diet
pills like Phenfen have been considered dangerous and have been pulled
from the market. According to Stahl, the Bushmen of the Kalahari have
been eating the hoodia plant for thousands of years, and it appears to
be safe. Now there is scientific evidence that shows that hoodia works.
"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.
Amazingly, the plant’s affects were unknown until recently. Early
research in the 1960’s did not discover the plant’s potential benefits.
It took the South African national laboratory 30 years to isolate and
identify the specific appetite-suppressing ingredient in hoodia. Pills
came out first but now some marketers have developed a patch version.
This will likely help people that would prefer slapping on a slow
release patch rather than popping a pill.
By Dan Wilson
Best Syndication
Books on Dieting
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