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Hoodia Gordini – it’s everywhere these days. On 60 minutes, in the health food store, in your diet pills, on the Internet. You’ve seen it and probably wondered ‘What’s so great about Hoodia?’

Hoodia Gordini is a natural appetite suppressant made from the Hoodia Gordini plant – a cactus of the “succulent” cactus family, which grows in the Kalahari Desert region of South Africa. Hoodia has been used by the indigenous Bushmen for years as a natural appetite suppressant during long hunting trips where food was scarce. So what’s so great about Hoodia Gordini? Here are 3 reasons why Hoodia is better than any man-made diet pill to help you lose weight quickly and safely:

1) Hoodia Helps You Lose Weight Without Hunger or Feeling Deprived

One of the first studies of Hoodia Gordini was done in the UK on obese patients. Half of the volunteers were given Hoodia Gordini, the other half were given a placebo. The subjects were allowed to do nothing but read, watch television and eat.

After 15 days it was found that those taking Hoodia had reduced their calorie intake by 1000 calories a day. Despite having unlimited access to food, the Hoodia subjects lost weight without feeling hungry.

People on various brands of Hoodia have reported losing 100 pounds in 6 months, 84 pounds in 5 months and up to 4 pounds a week by taking pure Hoodia. So if you’re looking for a way to lose weight but hate feeling hungry or deprived, Hoodia can help you to reach your goals without the pain of dieting.

2) Great For Emotional Eaters

Not only do you feel full when you take Hoodia but many people say they don’t even have the desire to eat. Some say they don’t even think about food while taking Hoodia.

This is great for emotional eaters – whose weight may be more a result of eating out of boredom or emotional needs than because of hunger. It’s also much easier to make healthier food choices when you feel satisfied and full, which contributes to your overall health and vitality.

3) Natural & Safe

Sure, you can take the caffeine-filled, chemical< laden man-made diet pills and lose a couple of pounds – but why would you want to? You don’t know what else it’s doing to your body – and it could be causing some major damage. One of the best benefits about Hoodia Gordini is that it’s both natural and safe to take.

Since Hoodia is a plant, and not a man made chemical, it has little chance of causing side effects. In fact the South African government classified Hoodia as a food – not a drug. Scientists have been studying Hoodia for about 10 years and have found no evidence of any negative side effects.

Couple this with the fact that the Bushmen in the Kalahari desert of South Africa have been eating Hoodia for hundreds of years with no ill effect. You can see why Hoodia is an amazing alternative to caffeine-laden, questionable diet pills.

While these 3 benefits definitely make Hoodia sound better than any man-made diet pill, there are a couple of things buyers should be aware of:

There are a lot of ‘fake’ Hoodia diet pills out there. Because Hoodia is a protected species (and it also takes 2 – 5 years to mature), the demand is becoming greater than the supply and many manufacturers are bottling inferior forms of Hoodia that don’t offer you the appetite suppressant effects of pure Hoodia.

To find out how to spot the real Hoodia (and save yourself both money and frustration), visit:

What To Know Before You Buy Hoodia.

Also, you probably don’t want to be on Hoodia Gordini forever. You should try to change your diet to one rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean meats etc. before transitioning off Hoodia to maintain your weight loss. Good luck on your road to wellness!

About the author:

Vienna Miller is a contributing writer to Hoodia Review – a website giving you the latest information on Hoodia Gordonii.

For more Hoodia weight loss tips visit http://www.HoodiaRev iew.homestead.com.

Written By: Vienna Miller

Copyright 2006 Geoff Morris

London Feb 2006

It may come as no surprise to you, but hundreds of millions of Westerners are now clinically over weight. If you spend any time in America, you only have to go to any of the hundreds of fast food chains to see why this is such a problem; both the portions and the customers are getting way too big! And many parts of Europe and especially the UK are following fast on their heels.

Now, many visitors to weight lifting and body building sites are not particularly obese, but many of them are looking to reduce their body fat to its minimum while at the same time building up quite striking muscle tissue. They are well aware that to really rip and shred those muscles you have to be very lean already, since you can’t sculpt fat!

But of course, the other side effect that haunts body-builders, is that the minute they stop their exercise routines – for whatever reason – they worry that they will just pile on the pounds and so they often do.

So, body builder or not, here is a major problem for a load of people – how to control your weight whatever sort of lifestyle you deem to follow. Now, not many body builders have secret lives as couch potatoes, but sometimes it is good to relax and enjoy life.

If you look at a number of health-related problems facing society today -smoking, sex and obesity, are way at the top of the list. More and more of us are turning to drugs as a cure-all for our little (or big) problems.

Viagra has done a brilliant job to help impotence, and a combination of legislation and drugs has helped to reduce smoking. But millions – no trillions – have been spent on the war against obesity, with very little impact….until now.

In one of the most inhospitable parts of the world, in the Kalahari Desert, there is an ugly looking, foul tasting cactus plant called the Hoodia. As wild life is scattered across miles of inhospitable desert, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari have tended to use two natural drugs to make their lives more acceptable while on long extended hunting trips. Marijuana helps to< offset long periods of boredom, but more importantly when they go on these hunting forays, they have been eating parts of the Hoodia cactus to suppress their pangs of hunger and thirst

Although there are over 20 species in the Hoodia family only the Hoodia Gordonii plant contains a natural appetite suppressant

When some South African scientists began doing some routine tests on this plant, they discovered a previously unknown sort of molecule, to which they gave the name P 57. This was then synthesized into a drug that emulated the Hoodia effects on appetite and thirst suppression.

P 57 – Not a very exciting name, but one which is going to have a massive effect on the lifestyle of millions of obese Westerners, and those living from one diet to the next, in the hope of finding the elixir of slimness.

The licence for this product, originally researched by a Cambridgeshire company, has now been purchased by the giant Pfizer Corporation.

Now as usual, if you buy products like this off the web, you have to be very careful to buy certified products. After all, when Viagra was released, a whole plethora of cheap imitation products flooded the market, almost destroying the real drug’s true benefits.

It is important that only 100% pure South African Hoodia from the Kalahari Desert is used for the best effects of this wonder drug, and the only way to ensure you have the real thing is to look to see if your supplier is displaying the certificates to prove it.

Don’t be surprised if the next fast food chain comes in the form of flavored Hoodia burghers – mind you – they won’t sell many as the appetite won’t be there…

About the author:

Geoff Morris has built up a multi-million dollar property portfolio, (http://propertyprofits4u.com)and has now turned his attention to personal fitness by taking over the site made famous by Ryan Joyce. This site cuts through all the confusion surrounding natural bodybuilders and fitness models. http://www.weight-lifting-routine.com .

Written By: Geoff Morris

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Almost everyone out here is looking for a solution to battle the bulge. Losing weight is an important dream aspired by millions of people worldwide. With proper mindset and guidance, this impossible dream can take the shape of reality.

According to the laws of physics, there are four ways to lose weight. It can be done by reducing food and restricting caloric content; boosting metabolism; by activating our bodies’ brown fat and reducing over production of the fat producing hormone insulin with minerals that minimize insulin resistance and support healthy blood sugar levels.

Although it looks very simple, creating a formula to cater to all the areas of weight loss physics isn’t easy. But thanks to nature which has given us such excellent and complementary supplements. Herbal products like Hoodia Green Tea can help us in our efforts for safe effective weight loss.

These all-natural supplements are clinically proven to help in shedding those extra pounds. Proper usage of these herbal slimming products can provide impressive results. You will be able to admire yourself in your bathroom mirror once again.

Integrating Hoodia Slimming Tea into any diet is easy. Simply enjoy two or three freshly steeped cups a day between meals or when you experience cravings. You will be able to notice a difference in the frequency and intensity of your in between meal cravings, making it easier to help break the habit of ritual snacking, and to resist the temptation of overeating. To speed your weight-loss program a regime of mild to strenuous exercise is also< recommended.

The Hoodia Slimming Tea combines hoodia cactus, a natural appetite suppressant from Southern Africa, with other time-tested weight-control teas, herbs and spices. It helps to control the appetite both during and between meals; increase metabolism and burn fat; prevent the conversion of calories into fat and efficiently eliminate the wastes.

The chief ingredients of this wonder herb formula are: –

Hoodia, a magical herb, is used by Kalahari Bushmen for thousands of years. Its active ingredients signal to the brain that the stomach is full, suppressing hunger cravings. Hoodia also enhances endurance and physical stamina. Extracts of this rare cactus have been shown to be safe in clinical research.

Green Tea, a wonderful ingredient which helps in decreasing the body fat by increasing the metabolism. It also contains powerful anti-oxidants that help support cardio-vascular health

Magnolia Bark, a herb that helps in the break up of stagnation within the digestive tract, facilitating elimination and Oatstraw Herb which is a well known in diuretic that helps the body eliminate liquid wastes.

So, start celebrating life with the power of Hoodia Green Tea. Relive the wonderful experience of having a slim and healthy body and enjoy life to the fullest.

About the Author

Sharon Richards is an associated editor to the website http://www.hateweight.com. Hateweight is committed to provide visitors with complete information on weight loss, obesity, healthy recipes, obesity diseases, and latest news. Your feedback & comments will be highly appreciated at sharon_rds@yahoo.com

Written By: Sharon Richards

What Is Hoodia? It is more than 2 years now since hoodia became well known in the public domain. Television programmes on both sides of the Atlantic in 2003/4 saw to that.

If you have not heard of hoodia before, or have but do not really know what it is, let me explain. Hoodia is a cactus-like succulent. I have seen it described as an ugly cactus, but as cacti go, I would say it is about average in the looks department. Not that its looks really matter; you will not be going up to it and giving it a loving hug. You might, however, want to give it a little bite, whether out of curiosity, or because you have heard it can help you lose weight.

I should be a little more precise before I continue. The hoodia plant that has recently been associated with weight loss potential is hoodia gordonii, one of a large group of succulent plants called Asclepiadaceae.

How Can Hoodia Help You Lose Weight?

Hoodia Gordonii grows in the Kalahari desert in Africa, and has done for thousands of years. It clearly thrives in very high temperatures, but it also takes many years to mature. Also living in the same region are the San Tribesmen, or Bushmen. The San are amongst the world’s oldest and most primitive tribes.

The San have been eating hoodia plants for thousands of years. Now, I am sure your vision of an African desert tribe would not be anything like obese Americans or Europeans, for whom hoodia has been mooted as a possible weight loss aid. In fact, you probably< imagine quite the opposite, a lithe and slender people struggling to survive on desert morsels. You would be right. How, then, can the San’s inclusion of hoodia in their diet have anything to do with weight loss aids?

The answer is in the reason they have, for all those generations, been eating the hoodia cactus. Their quest for food in the shifting sands of the Kalahari Desert has always meant going on long hunting expeditions. Instant gratification for hunger pangs was not usually on the menu, so with their hunting trips lasting for days, they ate hoodia gordonii because it suppressed those hunger pangs for long periods. No hunger pangs meant no overwhelming desire to eat. That made the whole hunting process that much more bearable.

You are probably now beginning to see how hoodia might come to the aid of the obese and overweight. Those who have trouble controlling their eating urges may have a close ally in Hoodia Gordonii. If a dose of the plant can suppress their desire to eat, to stop them feeling hungry at meal times, then surely they will find it easier to cut back on calorie intake?

That was the theory that sparked scientific studies of Hoodia Gordonii.

About the Author

This hoodia appetite suppressant article was written by Roy Thomsitt, owner and part author of the Routes To Self Improvement website: http://www.routes-to-self-improvement.com

Written By: Roy Thomsitt

Hoodia gordonii is a type of succulent plant that resembles a cactus, and is known to have suppress a persons appetite and thus help with losing weight. It’s sold in capsule form, and as a liquid or in tea form.

The hoodia cactus is found in the semi-deserts of Africa and grows in clumps of green stems. It usually takes five years before it can be harvested. From the twenty types of hoodia, only the gordonii variety has the appetite suppressant.

To the world, hoodia is a new discovery but for the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert, hoodia has long been part of their food. There really isnt much published research on hoodia, but one study conducted at Brown University found that the hoodias steroidal glycosides fool the brain into thinking that there’s an adequate supply of energy in the form of blood sugar, and therefore doesnt doesnt signal the body to eat.

Be careful about some hoodia information in the internet
After the buzz on hoodia, drug manufacturers claiming to sell genuine hoodia has congested the Internet. In fact, fake hoodia diet pills have been found found to contain sawdust, combined with roots of some unknown plants. So be very careful. Also, beware of companies who try to sell hoodia by claimimg that other hoodia products are inferior to their own there have been no published reports indicating that one hoodia diet pill product is more effective than the rest.

Hoodia diet pills are< effective, but expensive

Hoodia diet pills are expensive for the reasons mentioned above it usually takes five years before a hoodia plant can be harvested, and it’s only found in Africa. It’s also quite difficult to grow; in addition to the required four to five years waiting time, it also requires very high temperatures to grow. This explains why it’s so costly.

The proper dose of hoodia

Most companies put a standard recommended dose on the bottle, but there are also cases where people may need more (or less) than the recommended amount to achieve the desired effect. In fact ,some people who are already using hoodia say that they need at least 1,200 milligrams per day to get the result that they want. It would be wise to consult your doctor regarding the correct dosage of hoodia, since factors like weight, diet, lifestyle and metabolism may have an effect on the size dosage that a person needs to take.

About the Author:

Kathryn Whittaker has an interest in Health & Beauty related topics. To access more information on hoodia side effects or on pure hoodia, please click on the links.

Written By: Kathryn Whittaker