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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 is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as active as glucose.

It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if you were full. But you have not eaten. Nor do you want to. When the first animal trials for Hoodia were performed on rats, a species that will eat literally anything, they stopped eating completely. When the first human clinical trial was conducted, a morbidly obese group of people were placed in a "phase 1 unit", a place as close to prison as it gets.

All the volunteers could do all day was read papers, watch television, and eat. Half were given Hoodia, half placebo. Fifteen days later, the Hoodia group had reduced their calorie intake by 1000 a day.It's hard to diet when you're hungry. Your body is telling you to eat, so you eat. This is the single biggest factor that keeps people from loosing weight.

No matter how strong your will power is, you eventually break down and start eating too much again.Hoodia tackles every weight problem by the root: it simply stops your craving for food. Do you think you could loose weight if you ate 50% less then you do now? You bet you could. I have taken hoodia supplements and they really do make you feel like not eating.For more information about hoodia, go to:http://diet-pills-review.speedylearning.com/.

About the author: Brad Bahr is the author of many health related articles and websites. He has been testing and reviewing health supplements for many years. You can find more interesting health related articles at his website: http://www.findustuff.com

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Does Hoodia Promote Weight Loss That's Too Fast?

Memphis, TN (ContentDesk) June 14, 2006 -- Health officials and weight loss experts say they believe the newly discovered Hoodia Gordonii, a plant that tricks the brain by making the stomach feel full, is the silver bullet theyve been seeking for decades.???A new pill, called DiatrinH, contains the appetite suppressant Hoodia, which is found inside cactus trees in the African Kalahari desert. The San Bushmen of the Kalahari, one of the worlds oldest and most primitive tribes, have been eating Hoodia for thousands of years to stave off hunger during long hunting trips.The first scientific investigation of the plant was conducted at South Africas national laboratory. Because Bushmen were known to eat hoodia, it was included in a study of indigenous foods. "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.In the study, people given hoodia ended up eating about 1...

Does Hoodia Promote Weight Loss That's Too Fast?

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Hoodia and Hunger

Perhaps you've already heard of hoodia, the unsightly and unpleasant tasting cactus-like plant which grows in the Kalahari Desert.
In recent months, hoodia has received an overwhelming amount of attention from the media for it's ability to suppress hunger with no discernable negative side effects.
But how exactly does this plant fool our brains into thinking we are full?

Hoodia contains, among other things, steroidal glycosides.
These glycosides, when consumed, act on the hypothalamus of the human brain in much the same way that an increase in the amount of sugar in the bloodstream would.
When the hypothalamus believes that blood sugar is high, it sends out a signal to the body that no more sustenance is required.

Effectively, one of the components of hoodia's biological make-up tricks our brains into thinking we have already consumed enough caloric intake, which consequently suppresses our hunger.

Several studies...

Hoodia and Hunger

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Hoodia ? the New Wonder Weight Controller

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...

Hoodia ? the New Wonder Weight Controller

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Hoodia4Weightloss Announces Pre-Summer Hoodia Gordonii Weight Loss Pill Special

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

Hoodia > Weight Loss Effects of Hoodia Leads to Wide Public Interest

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