Thursday, August 7, 2008 

Obesity creeps up in US: report (AFP)

A woman rides the back of a motorcycle in the middle of a heavy traffic jam. Obesity continued to creep up in the United States last year and now affects more than one in four US adults, a US government report showed Friday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - Obesity continued to creep up in the United States last year and now affects more than one in four US adults, a US government report showed Friday.

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  2. News reports suggest that some products sold as hoodia do not wholesale caffeine powder any of the ingredient.
  3. The quality of hoodia products varies widely.
  4. These products often contain other herbs or minerals, such as green tea or chromium picolinate.
  5. On 60 Minutes it was reported that some hoodia products being sold on web sites did not actually contain hoodia gordonii.
  6. There are many unscrupulous marketers who may not be selling real hoodia.
  7. Because of the growing awareness and popularity of this miracle herb, rip-off products that contain very little or no authentic Hoodia in them are beginning to flood the marketplace.
  8. There is a very limited quantity of real hoodia gordonii available from l-carnitine Africa, the opportunity for counterfeit, fake and diluted products has emerged...is even running rampant.
  9. The safety and/or effectiveness of Hoodia Gordonii as a dietary supplement must thus be considered as unsubstantiated.
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Hoodia is a type of 13 species in the flowering plant family Apocynaceae, under the subfamily Asclepiadoideae.

Scientific name, Hoodia gordonii, is a stoneage wonder, cactus-like succulent plant, native to the semi-arid Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa. Hoodia marketers often claim that it has no side effects because the San Bushmen in the Kalahari have been using the supplement for thousands of years. It will supposedly allow to you eat less and eliminate cravings.

The supplement is sold in capsule, powder, liquid, or tea form in health food stores and on the Internet. Hoodia is also found in the popular diet pill TrimspaHoodia. It is also believed to suppress not only appetite but thirst.

Hoodia appears to be safe for most people although further scientific studies are required to establish the safety profile of Hoodia extract. While there are no known interactions between Hoodia and other medicines, it is recommended you talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or health care provider before taking any prescription or over-the-counter medicines or other herbal/ health supplements.

In December 2004, Unilever entered into an agreement with Phytopharm to start marketing Hoodia gordonii commercially in the form of shakes and diet bars although as of April 2007 no products have yet surfaced on the consumer market from that venture.

Between March and June of 2006, millions of E-mail spam and forum messages were sent out concerning Hoodia, ostensibly offering these extracts for weight control purposes.

Though the exact history of it's use has been a closely guarded secret from the western world for centuries, most experts can agree that the indigenous people of South Africa have taken Hoodia for it's miraculous appetite suppressing properties for some, if not all, of their 20,000 years of inhabitance.

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