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THE HERBAL WEIGHT-LOSS DIET

Regardless of how eloquently and passionately we state our position that you must change how you eat if you want to lose weight and keep it off, I know there's a segment of the population that wants to skip through every chapter that covers dietary restrictions and go directly to the words "If you take this pill, you can lose weight without making any sacrifices at all." If that's the level of your commitment, you may as well stop reading this book right now.

Weight-loss pills are marketed so aggressively through health food stores, multilevel companies (your next-door neighbor or sister-in-law, for example), drugstores, TV commercials, and mail-order catalogs that it's tempting to believe the hype. Maybe it's true that pills can dissolve fat off your waist as efficiently as Liquid-Plumr dissolves the sludge in your bathroom drain.

Over the past few months I've seen literally hundreds of signs decorating the roadways, promising to help me lose fifteen pounds in fifteen days, thirty pounds in thirty days, guaranteed weight loss or my money back. They promise to increase my energy while the weight just drops off.

Some of these signs are hand-lettered on brown cardboard box lids; some are run off a copier at a local print shop. Most are tacked onto telephone poles or on stakes stuck into the ground at busy intersections. It always seems a little odd that someone, somewhere actually expects people to write down the phone number off a fence post and call someone they have never met, buy a product about which they know nothing—from a company that may or may not be ethical or competent, and put that product into their bodies! It's even odder that many people actually do this!

I've investigated scores of these products and found them without exception to be products of inferior quality, sold at exorbitant prices, and predicated on pseudoscience that will render the user worse off than when he or she started using the product.

What the advertisements don't say is that while I'm speedily dropping the weight, I'm losing valuable cellular water stores and depleting the energy of some of the most critical organs in my body. In other words, while I'm losing pounds, I'm losing my health.

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Hoodia gordonii (pronounced HOO-dee-ah) is also called hoodia, xhooba, !khoba, Ghaap, hoodia cactus, and South African desert cactus.Hoodia is a cactus that's causing a stir for its ability to suppress appetite and promote weight loss. 60 Minutes, ABC, and the BBC have all done stories on hoodia. Hoodia is sold in capsule, liquid, or tea form in health food stores and on the Internet. Hoodia gordonii can be found in the semi-deserts of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Hoodia grows in clumps of green upright stems and is actually a succulent, not a cactus. It takes about 5 years before hoodia's pale purple flowers appear and the cactus can be harvested. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only the hoodia gordonii variety is believed to contain the natural appetite suppressant.Although hoodia was "discovered" relatively recently, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have been eating it for a very long time. The Bushmen, who live off the land, would cut off part of the hoodia stem and eat it to ward off hunger and thirst during nomadic hunting trips. They also used hoodia for severe abdominal cramps, haemorrhoids, tuberculosis, indigestion, hypertension and diabetes.In 1937, a Dutch anthropologist studying the San Bushmen noted that they used hoodia to suppress appetite. But it wasn't until 1963 when scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa's national laboratory, began studying hoodia. Initial results were promising -- lab animals lost weight after taking hoodia.The South African scientists, working with a British company named Phytopharm, isolated the active ingredient in hoodia, a steroidal glycoside, which they named p57. After getting a patent in 1995, they licensed p57 to Phytopharm. Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million on hoodia research.Eventually pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (makers of Viagra) caught wind of hoodia and became interested in developing a hoodia drug. In 1998, Phytopharm sub-licensed the rights to develop p57 to Pfizer for $21 million. Pfizer recently returned the rights to hoodia to Phytopharm, who is now working with Unilever. What you need to know about hoodiaHoodia appears to suppress appetite Much of the buzz about hoodia started after 60 minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl and crew traveled to Africa to try hoodia. They hired a local Bushman to go with them into the desert and track down some hoodia. Stahl ate it, describing it as "cucumbery in texture, but not bad." She lost the desire to eat or drink the entire day. She also didn't experience any immediate side effects, such as indigestion or heart palpitations. Stahl concluded, "I'd have to say it did work."In animal studies, hoodia is believed to reduce caloric intake by 30 to 50 percent. There is one human study showing a reduced intake of about 1000 calories per day. However, I haven't been able to find either study to actually read for myself and am going on secondhand reports.

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