| You have tried many ways to lose weight and have | | | | in the Kalahari Desert have been eating it for |
| probably read about many types of weight loss | | | | probably thousands of years. The first scientific |
| products and weight loss diet plans. Maybe you are | | | | investigation of the herb was researched at South |
| even a self styled expert of anything to do with | | | | Africa's national laboratory. They found that when |
| losing weight. | | | | Hoodia were fed to animals, all the animals lost |
| Then all of a sudden, you are reading advertisements | | | | weight without any exception. |
| after advertisements in the print media and the | | | | It took the South African national laboratory about |
| internet about a new herbal weight loss product. This | | | | 30 years to isolate and identify the specific appetite |
| natural herbal weight loss product, touted to be very | | | | suppressing active ingredient in the Hoodia plant. |
| effective for losing weight quickly is something that | | | | When they found it, they applied for a patent and |
| you have not heard until very recently. It even has a | | | | licensed it to Phytopharm, a pharmaceutical company. |
| very weird and strange name. This product is called | | | | Clinical trials were then conducted on obese |
| Hoodia. Just what is Hoodia you must have | | | | volunteers with excellent results. Subjects given |
| wondered? Why is this herbal weight loss product | | | | Hoodia supplement ended up eating about 1,000 |
| becoming so popular? | | | | calories a day effortlessly. |
| Well, when consumed, the Hoodia plant tricks the | | | | If the Hoodia plant is indeed the fast weight loss |
| brain by making the stomach feel full even if you | | | | magical herb, then this humble herb may be the |
| have only eaten a tiny weenie morsel. This herb has | | | | savior of the developed world where obesity is the |
| already been in the diet of Africa's Bushmen for | | | | main threat to many people's lives. |
| hundreds if not thousands of years. | | | | There is one glaring problem though. If the Hoodia |
| Hoodia is a very bitter tasting cactus like plant. This | | | | plant can only be found in the African desert which is |
| herbal weight loss plant can only be found in the | | | | already quite barren with vegetation, then will it be |
| Kalahari Desert of South Africa and nowhere else in | | | | very expensive owing to its scarcity? Will there be |
| the world. Is it any wonder why no one knows | | | | enough Hoodia to supply and meet demand? Or will |
| about this weight loss herb until very recently? | | | | there be large commercial farming to cater to the |
| Although the civilized world is just trying to | | | | demand fast enough? |
| understand Hoodia better now, the African bush men | | | | |