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Hoodia Diet Pills - Fact Or Fiction?
A lot has been written about
hoodia diet pills lately. Can taking a hoodia based supplement
really 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.
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