Hoodia Cactus
Most of the journalists used the name, "the African Hoodia Cactus" when they learned about the hunger-suppressing plant from South Africa. What they meant was "Hoodia Gordonii", found wild in the Kalahari Desert.
It does not belong to the cactus genus.
Hoodia Gordonii is a succulent. The Genus is Trichocaulon and the family name is Asclepiadaceae. It is a grayish brown plant with ten or more tentacles, resembling a long cucumber with spikes.
The height of the plant can be 18 inches to 6 feet. It is bitter-tasting, with an unpleasant smell.
The San Bushmen have been using this plant for thousands of years as a hunger suppressant while on long hunts. CSIR of South Africa took a patent on the plant as a weight-loss aid and sold it to a British pharmaceutical company, Phytopharm.
The plant grows only in a desert climate and takes about 5 to 7 years to mature. Attempts to grow them in China, Mexico and the USA failed.
Phytopharm successfully conducted clinical trials on the plant and combined with Pfizer of the USA to produce P 57, the active ingredient of Hoodia, synthetically.
After the attempt failed, because it was uneconomical, they arranged for large plantations in South Africa to cultivate the plant. They have tied up with Unilever, a British MNC and food giant, to test and market the product by 2008.
After a legal challenge and subsequent settlement between the San tribe lawyer and CSIR of South Africa, the Bushmen are to be given part of the profits made from the sales of the product. In an October 2004 convention at Bangkok, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild Fauna and Flora) included Hoodia Gordonii in Appendix II. This means that the South African government has an active control over this plant, and is not likely to allow over-exploitation of wild Hoodia.
It is proving to be a difficult task. Taking a plant from the wild desert and growing it as a plantation crop is a challenge that the scientists involved are facing.
Diseases, pests and a lot of agricultural practices have to be understood. However, they are confident of success in putting the product on the supermarket shelf by 2008..
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Copyright 2006 Jonni Good
Lately our email boxes have been filled with come-on's for a weight-loss product called Anatrim, which appears to contain (or claims to contain) extracts from the Hoodia gordonii plant, a suculent that grows naturally in South Africa.
The emails claim that Hoodia will help you lose weight without any unwanted side effects. There may be some truth to this claim about Hoodia itself, but the products that claim to contain Hoodia may not do you any good.
If you watched Leslie Stahl eat a bit of hoodia in the Kalihari Desert
on 60 Minutes, you know that this plant
may actually contain a compound that suppresses the appetite. However, the active ingredient in Hoodia gordonii is patented, and it is not legal at this time for any company to sell Hoodia in a weight loss product except for the patent's owner. That company isn't ready
to sell Hoodia for weight loss, and probably will not have a product available...
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Weight Loss Effects of Hoodia Leads to Wide Public Interest
Las Vegas, NV (ContentDesk) April 13, 2006 -- The new use of hoodia as an appetite suppressant and recent research on its benefits have made doctors and scientists engaged in the fight against the global epidemic of obesity sit up and take notice. The consistent demonstration of the appetite-controlling effects of hoodia has led to wide public interest in the use of this plant as the basis of a dietary supplement for weight control. Hoodia plants of the gordonii variety are succulent plants from the botanical family Asclepiadaceae. The cactus has spines resembling a true cactus. Hoodia Gordonii and has been used for centuries by the San Bushmen of South Africa as a way of controlling hunger and thirst during hunting expeditions in the Kalahari desert.
Whole hoodia powder made from the WHOLE plant contains some fiber, organic material, antioxidants and biologically active substances. The most important of these is steroidal glycosides. These molecules actually fool the brain into...
Weight Loss Effects of Hoodia Leads to Wide Public Interest
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Pure Hoodia
The South African Research Institute, CSIR, started a study on Hoodia Gordonii, a succulent growing wild in the Kalahari Desert. This plant has a reputation amongst the San tribe as a hunger suppressant. They chew this plant during their long hunting expeditions to prevent hunger. CSIR isolated the active molecule, named it P 57 and patented it in 1997. They sold the rights to a British company, Phytopharm, in 1998 to test and market the product.
In a double blind test, conducted by Phytopharm, 400 mg per day of Hoodia Gordonii powder, for 15 days, reduced the calorie intake by 1,000 compared to the control group.
Capsules, pills, tincture and diet gum all followed. This obviously includes genuine as well fly-by-night operators. The only thing that they could not do is to claim that their product is an aid for weight loss. That would be a patent violation. So they market it as a food supplement.
Phytopharm teamed with Pfizer of USA, a pharmaceutical...
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Hoodia Diet Pills - Fact Or Fiction?
Hoodia Diet Pills - Fact Or Fiction?- by A lot has been written about hoodia diet pills lately. Can taking a hoodia based supplement realy help you loose weight? Actually, yes it looks like it can. First some background on the hoodia cactus.Deep inside the African Kalahari desert, grows 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 and most primitive tribes, had been eating the Hoodia for thousands of years, to stave off hunger during long hunting trips.
When South African scientists were routinely testing it, they discovered the plant contained a previously unknown molecule, which has since been christened P 57. P 57 affects a part of your brain, the hypothalamus. Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar. When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing and now you are full. What the Hoodia seems to contain...
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Hoodia and Anatrim - Fact or Fiction?
Copyright 2006 Jonni Good
Lately our email boxes have been filled with come-on's for a weight-loss product called Anatrim, which appears to contain (or claims to contain) extracts from the Hoodia gordonii plant, a suculent that grows naturally in South Africa.
The emails claim that Hoodia will help you lose weight without any unwanted side effects. There may be some truth to this claim about Hoodia itself, but the products that claim to contain Hoodia may not do you any good.
If you watched Leslie Stahl eat a bit of hoodia in the Kalihari Desert
on 60 Minutes, you know that this plant
may actually contain a compound that suppresses the appetite. However, the active ingredient in Hoodia gordonii is patented, and it is not legal at this time for any company to sell Hoodia in a weight loss product except for the patent's owner. That company isn't ready
to sell Hoodia for weight loss, and probably will not have a product available...
Hoodia > Hoodia and Anatrim - Fact or Fiction?
Weight Loss Effects of Hoodia Leads to Wide Public Interest
Las Vegas, NV (ContentDesk) April 13, 2006 -- The new use of hoodia as an appetite suppressant and recent research on its benefits have made doctors and scientists engaged in the fight against the global epidemic of obesity sit up and take notice. The consistent demonstration of the appetite-controlling effects of hoodia has led to wide public interest in the use of this plant as the basis of a dietary supplement for weight control. Hoodia plants of the gordonii variety are succulent plants from the botanical family Asclepiadaceae. The cactus has spines resembling a true cactus. Hoodia Gordonii and has been used for centuries by the San Bushmen of South Africa as a way of controlling hunger and thirst during hunting expeditions in the Kalahari desert.
Whole hoodia powder made from the WHOLE plant contains some fiber, organic material, antioxidants and biologically active substances. The most important of these is steroidal glycosides. These molecules actually fool the brain into...
Weight Loss Effects of Hoodia Leads to Wide Public Interest
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When people talk about nutrition, they usually overlook a very important nutrient necessary for good health. WATER! That's mostly because we've taken both for granted for thousands of years. Water has been mostly good for us up until only a relatively few years ago. That's all changed now, and we definitely need to think again, as it's getting much worse, almost daily.
It's usually recommended that we each drink 64 ounces of water per day - that's 8 each 8 ounce glasses (full) every day....
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Bio-Ox.com Launches Cleaning Tip Site at LifeTips.com
Piscataway, NJ (ContentDesk) January 28, 2006 -- LifeTips announces the launch of the Cleaning Tip Site in the LifeTips network of millions of information seekers at LifeTips.com. Bio-Ox.com will now become the exclusive cleaning client in the LifeTips network. In this day and age, its hard to keep any home clean and germ free, explained Byron White, President of LifeTips. This Cleaning Tip Site will be the perfect place for consumers to educate themselves on what products to use and what...
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Is the CRT Going the Way of the 8-Track? Big Screen Plasma and LCD TVs Becoming Fixtures in the 21st Century Living Room
(ContentDesk) March 15, 2006 -- LCD TV and Plasma Television sets have gone from a virtual standstill in the last decade to being to predominant tvs of choice for new buyers. The older CRT television sets had a good run by anyone standards (at least 30 years), but the age of the flat panel has seemed to have dawned and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.One of the main reasons why
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Ten Ways Of Financing Real Estate
Do you remember when real estate financing meant you saved up enough to put 20% down on a house, and then you got a mortgage loan for the other 80%? Well, you can still do that, but there are many more options now. Here are ten of them. 1. Gifting programs. In some parts of the country, builders fund foundations that give you a portion of the downpayment, so you can get into a home with as little as 3% downpayment from your own pocket.
FHA and other lenders have so far approved of or allowed...
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The Basics of Phone Bugs
Phone bugs are among the most popular of devices for surveillance. This is because there is something that humans enjoy about listening in on conversations and learning things that others may not want them to learn. For those who aspire to involve themselves in professional surveillance, and even for those who just participate in surveillance as a hobby, knowing the basics of phone bugs is valuable information.
Phone bugs are interesting because they are versatile. There are different...
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