CNN Warns against Hoodia

CNN has published a report of several diet supplements to avoid, and have included hoodia on the list. Why? Because you don’t know what you are getting, and it will likely be YEARS before a genuine and safe hoodia gordonii product is available.

According to CNN:
Hoodia There’s been lots of hype about hoodia gordonni, a cactuslike South African plant with appetite-suppressing chemicals (in one study, people who took it ate 1,000 fewer calories a day).

But the hoodia in that test isn’t available right now, says University of California, Los Angeles, expert and Health Advisory Board member David Heber, M.D., Ph.D. He says the hoodia products in stores or online probably contain other hoodia types that don’t work — or none at all.

The British company Phytopharm, which has a global patent on hoodia for weight loss, says real products are years away. Bottom line: The available hoodia products may be safe, but they’re useless.