hoodia diet info

Hoodia is very different from most diet products you hear of. Most diet products work by increasing your metabolism to help you burn off the fat  your body has accumulated through your bad eating habits.

Hoodia, however, works on the source of the problem, by suppressing the appetite. If you don't eat, you don't gain weight - simple.

The problem for us is that, unfortunately, hoodia does not grow on trees (pun intended). In fact, the only place it has been found to grow natively is in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.

Also, while there are over 30 varieties of Hoodia, only the gordonii variety has proven effective in suppressing appetite among humans.

Anyway, now companies are in an arms race to produce the most effective and most profit friendly hoodia derivative.

Drug company Pfizer has spend millions of dollars in partnership with Phytopharm attempting to create a hoodia based diet pill.

Other companies are rushing just as frantically to produce hoodia drinks, hoodia concentrates, and other forms of hoodia supplements that are suddenly in great demand mainly due to the 60 minutes report by Leslie Stahl.

So far, there has been much anecdotal evidence of hoodia's effectiveness. However, there have been no independent research studies to either confirm or deny the hoodia claims spreading around the internets.

Please look through this site for hoodia diet info as well as diet info on other diet trends.