Hoodia appetite pill - Hoodia : The Anti-Fat Pill?
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The hoodia plant is a spiny cactus that grows in the Kalahari desert in Africa, mostly in the arid areas of South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. San Bushmen (who are one of the world's oldest and most primitive hunter-gatherer tribes), have known about the appetite suppressing abilities of hoodia for countless generations. Rock paintings of the San Bushmen go back more than 20,000 years. The nomadic Bushmen, who live in this harsh and arid desert, use the hoodia cactus as an appetite suppressant during their long marches and hunting trips.
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The Sad San Story -- A short history of the San Bushmen
Relatively small in stature, the San Bushmen first made contact with Western explorers in the 1920s. They were treated unkindly (some of the explorers even hunted them like animals) and by the 1930s the Bushmen population was so decimated that a wide section of the Kalahari desert was officially turned into a game preserve and the San were allowed to live off the land. Unfortunately as a result of the Apartheid laws in South Africa in the 1950s, the San were forced to settle in a makeshift township on the edge of the Kalahari desert. They were forbidden to hunt and ended up living in poverty and squalor... to this day.
   In July 2004, it was reported in the news that more than 200 bushmen from the Kalahari desert are taking the Botswana government to court over their forced eviction from ancestral land. They are challenging a 2002 decision to resettle them outside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, which was their home for tens of thousands of years.

Growing Hoodia
The hoodia cactus is difficult to grow and requires just the right amount of water, sunlight and temperature. It takes five years for the hoodia cactus to grow to full maturity.

Hoodia Research
It was in the 1960s that scientists first discovered that when rodents were given hoodia, they practically stopped eating. According to news reports, reseearchers in South Africa discovered hoodia contains a previously unknown compound, not known to be present in other plants, which has since been named P 57. Apparently the license was sold to a British pharmaceutical company, Phytopharm, who in turn sold the development and marketing rights to Pfizer Corporation. Studies with hoodia are being conducted at this time. A preliminary report in the news media which I can't find in medical journals indicates that hoodia is able to suppress appetite in humans.

Does Hoodia have side effects?
I'm not aware of any published studies on Medline regarding hoodia. Long term positive and negative side effects are currently not clearly understood.

Paradise Herbs Hoodia Slim ( Appetite Control ), 60 Vcaps
Hoodia Slim is a stimulant-free herbal food concentrate that works with your system: curbing appetite to help with weight loss. For generations bushmen have used Hoodia while on long hunting trips to help increase stamina and stave off hunger and thirst. Hoodia Gordonii leaf & flower extract (10:1 concentrate equivalent to 2,500 mg whole plant)

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