Hoodia and Anatrim - Fact or Fiction?
Copyright 2006 Jonni Good
Lately our email boxes have been filled with come-on's for a weight-loss product called Anatrim, which appears to contain (or claims to contain) extracts from the Hoodia gordonii plant, a suculent that grows naturally in South Africa.
The emails claim that Hoodia will help you lose weight without any unwanted side effects. There may be some truth to this claim about Hoodia itself, but the products that claim to contain Hoodia may not do you any good.
If you watched Leslie Stahl eat a bit of hoodia in the Kalihari Desert
on 60 Minutes, you know that this plant
may actually contain a compound that suppresses the appetite. However, the active ingredient in Hoodia gordonii is patented, and it is not legal at this time for any company to sell Hoodia in a weight loss product except for the patent's owner. That company isn't ready
to sell Hoodia for weight loss, and probably will not have a product available until 2008.
However, there are products on the market at this time that claim to contain Hoodia, including the one called Anatrim. The hoodia patent owner, Phytopharm, claims that these products contain such a small amount of the active ingredient that they are essentially worthless.
Hoodia is a desert plant that grows sparsely in one of the most brutal environments on earth.
It is highly unlikely that any of the companies now selling Hoodia weight loss products could ever pick or produce enough of the spiky little plants to fill all those bottles of weight loss pills. Phytopharm's own hoodia farm in South Africa looks sparse indeed, and these slow-growing succulents can't possibly yield high returns without many months of patient cultivation.
The real product, containing useful quantities of the active ingredient in hoodia, (and not just the word 'hoodia' on a label), should be on the market in 2008. With no side effects, no addiction, no heart racing, no deaths - this could be the 'miracle cure' that will cure the obesity epidemic. We just need to be patient.
Even if the Anatrim folks had found a fast and easy way to grow lots of Hoodia, and even if the product worked, (which may be doubtful), there's another reason to wait for the product from Phytopharm. This company has signed an agreement with the San people, who are the first to use the plant as an appetite suppressant, and on whose ancestral land the plant traditially grows.
They will receive a portion of the profits from the sale of Hoodia products sold by Phytopharm.
The San of the Kalahari have been eating this cactus-like plant for centuries. The scarcity of food in the desert is the likely cause of the Bushman's thin figure, but an appetite-suppressing plant would have big advantages to people who must often do without food during times of scarcity. It is ironic that the same plant could now be offering a lifeline to a world suffering from too much food.
But does it work? Apparently it does. A study was done in 2001 for Phytopharm. The study included overweight but otherwise healthy volunteers using an extract of Hoodia gordonii.
The study found that large doses of Hoodia gordonii extract caused a statistically significant reduction in the average daily calorie intake and a reduction in body fat content compared to the placebo group after two weeks.
So there we have it - it appears that Hoodia gordonii extract really does have the ability to reduce our appetites and help us lose excess fat, but the products currently claiming to contain Hoodia may be ineffective. We will have to wait until 2008 to see if the real MacCoy really works as promised.
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New label for Hoodia Diet Products
(ContentDesk) June 28, 2005 -- There is to be a change of labels for Hoodia Diet Products range of organic slimming aids. The new labels will comply will all regulations, and will be to the forefront in its field in meeting the compliance requirements of the United Kingdom's MHRA code. The label change will commence with Pure Hoodia and continue with the roll of out of an exciting range of new products.The new products will include Cha De Bugre, an effective appetite suppressant from South America, which is sure to prove very popular amongst HDP customers. The new labels are being introduced as Hoodia Diet Products continue to attract growing interest from companies keen to be associated with the HDP brand.Speaking to www.hoodiadietproducts.com, company CEO Shaun Breen. said: "Our products will be supplied under licence by a number of companies on both side of the Atlantic.
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The Weight Loss Secret Behind Hoodia
Kalahari Desert, South Africa (ContentDesk) July 6, 2006 -- The onslaught of fashion magazines and shows has drummed the perfect shape of a fit body into everybodys brains. We all know how were supposed to look like to be attractive and to give off that carefree success look. What we did not know is that the next big thing in dieting comes from South Africa. From the sandy expanses of the Kalahari Desert intrepid businessmen bring a cactus called Hoodia. Weight loss experts are already excited over the avenues opened by this plant that curbs hunger.For hundreds of years the Kalahari bushmen have been eating Hoodia to keep hunger at bay during long hunting trips and in times of drought.
And now millions of people living in industrialized countries are about to join them, as Hoodia-based pills are made available worldwide. However, for all the glittering promise of a better tomorrow, Hoodia is still somewhat of a problem. First, no scientific tests have been conducted on humans...
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Targeted Email Advertising Campaigns ? Do They Really Work?
Copyright 2006 Michael Mould
As a normal course of online business, we all want to increase our website traffic with buyers looking for our products, but none of us wants to increase our traffic just for the sake of using up our bandwidth.
So, many businesses fall victim to the slick advertising of "targeted" email campaigns claiming they have lists of opt-in customers looking for products like ours.
Do you really believe these con men?
How many people do you know that put their email addresses on lists asking to be sent information about a specific type of product if and when some clown with a list of email addresses happens to come across that specific product?
I get at least a half dozen emails every day trying to push Viagra and Cialis on me and I sure didn't ask for information about products of this nature.
I also get Hoodia advertisements that I never asked for.
Did you know that the company that holds all of the...
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60 Minutes Report on Hoodia
(ContentDesk) March 29, 2006 -- 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 you're full, even if you've eaten just a morsel. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports."Hoodia, a plant that tricks the brain by making the stomach feel full, has been in the diet of South Africa's Bushmen for thousands of years."Because the only place in the world where Hoodia grows wild is in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. So how did it work? There are no after effects - no funny taste in your mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. Your also...
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Hoodia Buying Information
There are many Hoodia products on the market these days and of course you want the best Hoodia product for you and your diet. Before you buy Hoodia and spend your hard earned dollars you need to know some facts.South African Hoodia Gordonii is where it all started and when the authentic extract comes from. Do not buy anything that is not pure Hoodia Gordonii or you will simply be wasting your money. You may see some Hoodia products that are 20:1 or does not show you the exact contents. These are products to stay away from.
You need to be buying products that display full information and that you know you can track back to it's original producer in South Africa. Many people have bought Hoodia products only to find out that it is mostly rice products. Most Hoodia Gordonii sold on the internet are nothing but products filled with an unidentified product. It could be starch, rice powders and in somecase people have even discovered sawdust. This is just outright fraud.In recent years...
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Appetite be Gone with Hoodia Gordonii by Millennium Health Supplements (Canada)Inc.
Millennium Health Supplements (Canada) Inc. is introducing 100% Pure Hoodia Gordonii directly from South Africa.Hoodia Gordonii's revolutionary properties will take the multi-billion dollar diet industry by storm, after much research by South African scientists and western pharmaceutical companies have proven that Hoodia has no known side effects and no stimulants.Hoodia Gordonii grows in the high deserts of the Kalahari Desert region of South Africa where temperatures reach as high as 50 degrees Celsius.
Although there are other species of Hoodia, the Gordonii is the only one that contains the all-natural appetite suppressant.
South African scientists have been testing the Hoodia plant since 1996 when they discovered the plant contained a previously unknown molecule, dubbed P57 by Britain's leading pharmaceutical researcher, replicates the effect glucose has on nerve cells in the brain fooling the body into thinking it is full, even when it is not.
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Top 10 Ways to Fail Miserably At Losing Weight
Americans are getting fatter.
I hate to be the one to put it so bluntly, but the scales don't lie.
65% of adult Americans are either overweight or obese.
25% of Americans are obese.
Now for the bad news - things are only getting worse.
In 1991, only four states had obesity rates of 15 to 19 percent and none had obesity rates greater than 20 percent.
By the year 2000, all of the 50 states had obesity rates of 15 percent or greater, with 35 of the 50 states having obesity rates as high as 20 percent or greater.
In 2005, obesity rates increased in 49 out of 50 States (congratulations to Oregon for bucking the trend).
The Trust for America's Health is projecting that by 2008 a staggering 73% of US adults could be overweight or obese. The trend is clear - we are all getting fatter by the day.
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Consumer Alert: Hoodia Gordonii Weight Loss Pills Scam Exposed by Independent Investigation
Truth Publishing, the creator and operator of the News Target Network, is reporting a counterfeit weight loss pills scam affecting unsuspecting consumers and the Hoodia industry in a new report posted online now at http://www.newstarget.com/006016.html.The scam involves Nevada corporation Pure Hoodia and its selling of counterfeit Hoodia Gordonii appetite suppressant pills to consumers looking for a natural weight loss supplement. Three independent laboratory examinations of the products sold by Pure Hoodia Inc., commissioned by Truth Publishing, indicate they did not contain hoodia. Hoodia Gordonii is a plant from South Africa and is traditionally sold as a powder in capsulated form as a natural appetite suppressant.Tested capsules sold by Pure Hoodia Inc. not only failed for containing any significant concentrations of the product, but were also discovered to have total dosage amounts weighing much less than what was...
Consumer Alert: Hoodia Gordonii Weight Loss Pills Scam Exposed by Independent Investigation
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(ContentDesk) November 5, 2005 -- Stuart Kirby and the #51 Marathon Race Team is gearing up for this weekends Dickies 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Dallas. Marathon is headquartered just down the road in Houston, so Im excited to give a good performance as a thanks for all their support, said Kirby preparing for Thursdays practice and qualifying. Theyve been tremendous sponsors. ????Treating this race as a sort of Marathon homecoming, Kirby and the rest of the team have something...
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Baby Shower Invitations
The main purpose of sending out baby shower invitations is to make friends and loved ones aware of the arrival of a new baby. It goes without saying that without invites, not many will even know about the celebration, and that's a pretty unfortunate scenario. So, how can we avoid that outcome and find some good ideas? Let's start by re-capping the purpose of baby shower invitations.
Baby Shower Invitations reflect the excitement and overall anticipation of the coming birth. In...
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