Safe Weight Management and Herbal Diets
Safe Weight Loss and Herbal Supplements
With fashion magazines and reality shows imbibing the attractiveness of being thin rather than being healthy, most people demand for consumer products and turn to herbal diets as they are more desperate to find answer in their frantic search for a wonder product that would provide them instant and unbelievable results.
Herbal Pills
With a number of drug manufacturers taking advantage of this fashion trend, than a health trend, they produce and manufacture products that promise of an instant and significant weight loss. To improve their product’s positioning, these manufacturers promote their products by highlighting on the safety of their weight loss pills by claiming that they only use herbs and herb-based agents. As it is unfortunate that this industry operates freely and without any regulation provided for the FDA, people who had purchased and were made to believe of their product’s capability were, in the end, gravely disenchanted by their inefficiency and even ineffectiveness. As these manufacturers’ claims were anchored on the capability of herbs, people, who were badly misinformed about the pill, now frown at the concept of an herb-based diet, though some are scientifically proven as an effective aid in most weight management programs
With much of the media highlighting on a variety of pills, people were badly misinformed on most of weight loss programs and products that provides significant health results. One of the known herbs that are scientifically proven to help most people achieve their ideal weight and healthy lifestyle is Hoodia Gordonii. This plant growing in the Kalahari Desert of the South African region is known to suppress appetite and even thirst. Also known in various terms such as Xhooba, Ghaap, and South African desert cactus, Hoodia Gordonii is a cactus-like plant that had been trusted by most natives of this region to provide them necessary aid during their long hunting trips in the desert. This plant is known to grow only in semi-desert areas such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Its ability to provide the necessary aid in weight loss had been proven and made more known when the South African Council and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research had made their acknowledgement public in their joint press release. Swearing on the known benefit of this herb is BBC correspondent Tom Mangold during their cover in Kalahari Desert in 2003 saying that he and his team had forgotten food and even water.
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Hoodia Diet Pills
For more than a thousand years, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert had used this plant to help them endure heat, hunger, and even thirst during their long period of hunting. Having a small amount and quantity of food and water to bring, the natives of the Kalahari Desert cut off and eat the bitter-tasting stem of Hoodia. Though there are 13 types and varieties of Hoodia, only Hoodia Gordonii is proven to contain of an active ingredient known as steroidal glycoside or “P57” that is known to suppress hunger. The effectiveness of Hoodia Gordonii had made Pfizer and Phytopharm race to win rights over the production of a drug based on this plant. At present, Phytopharm had gained rights over this activity and had sold pills, liquid, tea that contains the plant’s active ingredient. As the study known to test the validity of an herbal diet primarily containing Hoodia Gordonii had been suppressed and not published, a number of scientific organizations had warned people from buying products known to boast of hoodia as their active ingredients since it is impossible to identify whether or not such product contains pure hoodia or P57.
