Hoodia Gordonii Plus Diet
Hoodia Gordonii Plus Diet Appetite Suppressant contains 100% pure South African Hoodia plus other weight loss ingredients. On November 21, 2004 CBS correspondent, Lesley Stahl reported on 60 Minutes that a strange little plant, Hoodia Gordonii, “... is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.” According to CBS, “Scientists say that it fools the brain by making you think you’re full, even if you’ve eaten just a morsel.”
Hoodia Gordonii Plus Diet?
Hoodia is a genus of succulent plants in the family Apocynaceae that is widely used traditional by the San people of southern Africa as an appetite suppressant, thirst quencher and as a cure for severe abdominal cramps, tuberculosis, indigestion, haemorrhoids, hypertension and diabetes. Various uses have been entered among Anikhwe (Northern Botswana), Hai om (northern Namibia ), Khomani (north western South Africa ), and the !Xun and Khwe (originally from Angola ) communities. Less is known about the use of this group of plants by other indigenous people, but some records show fixed use of Hoodia parts as food items, albeit not as preferred food items. Hoodias are known to be used for cultural purposes in some areas (Hargreaves and Turner, 2002). Although relatively difficult to cultivate, Hoodia ' s are beautiful plants and are also used for horticultural purposes.
Hoodia Gordonii CSIRThe Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa isolated an active compound (P57) for appetite suppression from H. gordonii . The CSIR licensed the rights for further development of P57 and the setting up of a sustain production system to Phytopharm in the UK . Phytopharm in turn sub licensed the rights to Pfizer for the development and global commercialization. Pfizer has recently returned the clinical developmental rights.
