Hoodia Diet Pills – Don’t Fall for the Scam
Diet pills might work for some people but the majority of people who pop the pills end up being hungry all day long, don’t lose weight and gradually begin to realize they’ve been taken.
If you’ve wasted $70 or more buying Hoodia diet supplements online and ended up tossing them out after a few days – you are not alone. Thousands of people have fallen for the scam.
Wild Hoodia gordonii has been protected under CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) since October 2004. It is a protected succulent which means that harvesting Hoodia plants in the wild without a permit is illegal. South Africa is the only country issuing a valid Cites export certificate that is recognised by the US Department of Agriculture.
The export of hoodia is protected by the government in South Africa, where the plant is found in the Kalahari desert. The San people of the Kalahari have been using the Hoodia plant for generations to stave off hunger and as a water supplement during their long hunting trips. (Though one would think wandering in the Kalahari for 10 to 15 miles a day looking for food would be the sole reason for this “amazing” weight loss…)
Unfortunately, your chances of getting your hands on the real stuff are actually slim. However, due to the massive number of articles on hoodia and the growing number of websites selling the pills, many people are willing to give hoodia a try. The problem is, they don’t get anything resembling real hoodia – they are sold counterfeit pills.
The percentage of fake hoodia pills on the internet by some estimates has reached 80 percent. It’s a billion dollar market, and the scammers have moved in to control a large portion of it.
Wild hoodia – again, if you could get it since it is an endangered species- is supposed to be clinically proven effective as a diet suppressant, although PubMed, (www.pubmed.gov), with over 17 million citations finds very little research has been published on hoodia.
Even some licensed hoodia growers who are producing farm-grown hoodia are often selling an inferior product that just isn’t potent enough to work. Wild hoodia is harvested when it is a mature 5 or 6 year old plant, while the artificially propagated or cultivated hoodia is usually harvested after just half that time – 2 or 3 years. The longer maturation time gives the wild hoodia gordonii plant a potency level of between 0.34-0.35%. Compare that figure to that of cultivated hoodia, which registers a potency level of only 0.1% or less.
There’s no magic pill for weight loss. Your best bet is still to pursue weight loss the healthy way: by following a daily 1200 calorie diet plan, doing cardio workouts daily, and if you can, lift weights 2 or 3 times a week.
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