Everyone in the media is backing hoodia!
CBS… BBC… ABC and Cosmopolitan.co.uk…

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

Dr. Richard Dixey

"Hoodia stops hunger and also treats sickness," Steenkamp told ABCNEWS. "We, San, use the plant during hunting to fight off the pain of hunger and thirst."

Obesity is a growing problem in Western countries, where 100 million people are dangerously overweight. Doctors say excessive weight gain causes a myriad of medical problems including heart disease, diabetes, cancer and the onset of strokes.

P-57 (the active ingredient in hoodia) works by mimicking the effect that glucose has on nerve cells in the brain — in effect fooling the body into thinking it is full, even when it is not, thus curbing the appetite.

Clinical trials in the United Kingdom suggest P-57 could reduce appetite by up to 2,000 calories a day…"

"In order to see for ourselves, we drove into the desert, four hours north of Capetown in search of the cactus.

Once there, we found an unattractive plant which sprouts about 10 tentacles, and is the size of a long cucumber…

… the plant is said to have a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we felt good.

But more significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains really were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent deception.

Dinner time came and went. We reached our hotel at about midnight and went to bed without food. And the next day, neither of us wanted nor ate breakfast.

I ate lunch but without appetite and very little pleasure. Partial then full appetite returned slowly after 24 hours.”

"It has no known side effects, and contains a molecule that fools your brain into believing you have just eaten.

This week on Four Corners, Tom Mangold from the BBC's Correspondent program goes deep inside the African Kalahari desert. There he is introduced to an ugly cactus called the Hoodia. It thrives in extremely high temperatures, and takes years to mature.

The San Bushmen of the Kalahari, one of the world's oldest tribes, has been eating the Hoodia for thousands of years, to stave off hunger during long hunting trips.

A few years ago South African scientists routinely testing it, discovered the plant contained a previously unknown molecule, which has since been christened P 57…

…the Hoodia suppresses appetite so effectively that for 24 hours people just do not feel the need to eat."

"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…

… 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."

POKOTROS

its a completely natural plant from south africa, my bf is from s.a and hes used it and so have several of his relatives.

It worked for them, it makes you feel full up and theres no side effects as its natural.

CASSY 77

Lost about half stone! I am still a bit stunned because I have been trying to lose some weight for ages but getting too tempted by cravings. With the hoodia I just didn’t feel hungry and also I would wake up really alert and energised. So it allowed me to control what I ate…

…I could have easily eaten nothing which I wasn’t expecting . When I realised I had no appetite at all I bought in some veg /salads etc. Other weird thing was when a couple of friends came around for pizza and I couldn’t eat more than a slice and half before feeling uncomfortably full.

RACHELHOLDEN

I have been using Hoodia for about six months now and have felt a massive difference in my eating habits. I don’t seem to crave snacks or chocolates inbetween meals anymore which has made a massive impact on my weight loss.

Although I have eaten sensibly and done regular exercise (when I can), without Hoodia I would not have been so successful in my weight loss.