Maybe you’ve seen hoodia on health food store shelves, seen a segment about this popular diet aid on 60 Minutes, pulled up ads about hoodia on the Internet, or learned from a friend that hoodia A wonderful product for people trying to lose weight. What’s so special about hoodia, though, and why is it better than other diet aids on the market?
First, hoodia helps people lose weight without feeling deprived of food and constantly hungry like regular restricted-calorie diets. A preliminary study of hoodia gordonii use among obese patients in the United Kingdom showed that those who took the supplement managed to lose 1,000 calories per day in just two weeks. These patients had unlimited access to food, yet they ate little and had no appetite. Others have reported losing up to 4 pounds per week and up to 100 pounds in just six weeks.
Second, hoodia prevents obsessing or focusing on food, in addition to allowing people to feel full while eating less. This remarkable feature of the plant supplement addresses the problem many emotional eaters face when they eat out of boredom or because of a desire to change their mood, rather than to satisfy hunger. Many people struggling with weight gravitate toward “comfort foods,” which are unhealthy, high in fat, or full of empty calories. By reducing such compulsive urges about food, hoodia supplements allow the dieter to make healthier eating choices and use food to nourish the body rather than provide temporary comfort.
Perhaps its most redeeming feature as a dietary supplement is that hoodia is both natural and safe to use. Other products on the market are enhanced with caffeine and man-made chemicals, but Hoodia gordonii is a plant indigenous to South Africa’s Kalahari dessert that native African Bushmen have been using safely for thousands of years. Scientists, too, have not found any adverse side effects in over a decade of research studies on extracts of this plant. In fact, the South African government considers Hoodia gordonii to be a food rather than a medicine.
Source by Danielle Vikki Summers
