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60 Minutes
Hoodia News Report
http://www.cbsnews.com
African Plant May Help Fight Fat
Nov. 21, 2004
(CBS) Each year, people spend more than $40 billion on products
designed to help them slim down. None of them seem to be working
very well.
Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it'll be tripping
off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that
literally takes your appetite away.
It's very different from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen
that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia
doesn't stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by
making you think youre full, even if you've eaten just a morsel.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports.
Hoodia is a bitter-tasting cactus-like plant. 60 Minutes was told
that if it wanted to try hoodia, it would have to go to Africa. Why?
Because the only place in the world where hoodia grows wild is in
the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.
Nigel Crawhall, a linguist and interpreter, hired an experienced
tracker named Toppies Kruiper, a local aboriginal Bushman, to help
find it. The Bushmen were featured in the movie The Gods Must Be
Crazy.
Kruiper led 60 Minutes crews out into the desert. Stahl asked him if
he ate hoodia. "I really like to eat them when the new rains have
come," says Kruiper, speaking through the interpreter. "Then they're
really quite delicious."
When we located the plant, Kruiper cut off a stalk that looked like
a small spiky pickle, and removed the sharp spines. In the interest
of science, Stahl ate it. She described the taste as "a little
cucumbery in texture, but not bad."
So how did it work? Stahl says she had no after effects no funny
taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. She also
wasn't hungry all day, even when she would normally have a pang
around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the
entire day. "I'd have to say it did work," says Stahl.
Although the West is just discovering hoodia, the Bushmen of the
Kalahari have been eating it for a very long time. After all, they
have been living off the land in southern Africa for more than
100,000 years.
Some of the Bushmen, like Anna Swartz, still live in old traditional
huts, and cook so-called Bush food gathered from the desert the
old-fashioned way.
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