HOODIA REPORT

Since mid-2003 Hoodia mania has spread all over the country. The new diet pill that is scientifically guarantees weight loss to people no matter how out of shape they may be. Hoodia Gordonii is a South African plant that has been used for many years to fight hunger and fulfill an appetite. Even with its studies and statistics many people still question its effectiveness on people, and that includes the Wisconsin State Journal. In September 2005 WSJ published a report questioning Hoodia’s effectiveness and whether scientists believe that it really is harmless.

The article starts off by stating that “Experts believe that it might be harmful” and “that you really can’t get it here.” If we can’t get it here then how come there are so many companies selling Hoodia pills online. The fact is that all these companies selling Hoodia products aren’t getting the product from South Africa and that one might call a “fake” diet pill. The real Hoodia plant pill has already been patented and purchased by Pfizer Inc. They paid to have patent, to get the plant grown, and to prepare for the shipment of the diet pill. But why then did Pfizer sell it’s ingredients to different companies?

The article states that Pfizer didn’t really feel that Hoodia worked. UW-Madison’s pharmacy professor Paul Huston believes he knows the answer. He states that if Pfizer released information that had to do with obesity, then they must have felt that the product didn’t have any merit.

Just because Pfizer may have not had 100% confidents doesn’t mean that it didn’t work. Tests have shown over and over again that it does work very effectively. The backings still haven’t made Hoodia legal in the U.S. Shipping it into the United States is also technically illegal as a dietary supplement. It’s mainly because some companies don’t even put any Hoodia in the supplement. Some scientists believe that it may very happen that the true way of guaranteeing a diet that includes Hoodia is to actually eat the plant itself instead of looking for a legit pill.