Hoodia Diet

Author: Jeff Adams

The Kalahari Desert is a harsh desert, but biologically a very
active one. South Africa, Angola, Namibia and Botswana border
the desert. The native tribe, known as San or Bushman by the
white South Africans, is one of the oldest living tribes in the
world, may be as old as 100,000 years. Even then, they do not
live a settled life with agriculture or animals rearing. They
are pure hunter-gatherers. They were hunted down by the white
settlers of South Africa as a nuisance, and as late as the early
part of 20th century, there were hunting parties organized to
exterminate them.

When the San go on long hunting trips following the game, they
eat a cactus-like plant and they do not feel hunger or thirst
for a long period. They called it Xhoba. South Africa's
government research organization, CSIR (Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research), in a routine investigation tested this
plant and found that this indeed blocked the sense of hunger and
gave a feeling of fullness to the stomach.

Hoodia is the name of the plant, and it is not a cactus but a
succulent in the family of Asclepiadaceae. It is multi-stemmed
(about 18 inches high, averaging ten tentacles), looks like a
long cucumber with spikes, smells unpleasant, and has purple
disc-shaped flowers of three to four inches in diameter. It is
bitter tasting and grayish brown in color.

CSIR scientists isolated the active ingredient, which gave the
feelings of fullness when consumed. It is a molecule that they
named P 57. There are about twenty varieties of Hoodia, but only
one of them is Xhoba, with the ingredient P 57. This is Hoodia
Gordoni. In 1776 Col. R. J. Gordon, while exploring the Orange
River, found this plant and recorded it. It is named after him
as Hoodia Gordoni. It is also called Queen of Namibia and
African hats.

Medication made from this plant is one of the hottest products
in the market for weight-reducing treatments

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