Is Hoodia Gordonii a weight loss miracle or a deception?
Hoodia Gordonii is a succulent, which grows in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. It has the power to suppress appetite, because it contains an active ingredient, named P57. It has been used by the San Bushmen who live in the Kalahari Desert region for centuries to suppress their appetite. Eating Hoodia Gordonii helped them to ward off feelings of hunger and thirst in a region where food and water were hard to come by. Given such facts about Hoodia Gordonii, there is really no doubt on its appetite suppressing capabilities. However, this cannot be said for all the Hoodia diet supplements.
Ever since Hoodia Gordonii was publicized in the ’60 Minutes’ show and in the ‘BBC Report’, there has been a mad scrambling for this weight loss miracle. Companies which were into the manufacture of diet supplements took to making Hoodia-based diet supplement, to cash in on its popularity. However, not all Hoodia diet supplements are genuine.
Some Hoodia diet product manufacturers grind up the whole plant and use this as the ingredient in their supplements (such as their pills or liquid products). Others make use of the leaves and roots of the succulent to make their Hoodia product. Hoodia products in both these cases are ineffective because it is only the fleshy core of the plant which contains the appetite suppressing properties. There are also manufacturer who use Hoodia from places other than South Africa and once again such products are nothing but fakes.
If you want to be sure of getting the effective appetite reducing properties of the real Hoodia Gordonii, which is grown in South Africa, from your Hoodia diet product, you need to check, if the company putting forth the product is displaying a C.I.T.E.S certificate and an Analytical report in their website. Only then cane you be sure that the product contains pure Hoodia Gordonii, purchased from South Africa and this is important because a product that contains genuine Hoodia Gordonii is only an effective one. Â
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