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The hype about Hoodia
Writer: Dr Anina Lee.
If you look at the shelf-upon-shelf of dietary supplements in your local ‘health-care’ store, you will find many products that claim to promote weight loss.
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the Western World. In 2019, 2 billion individuals were overweight, of whom 650 million were obese. Children are of particular concern as 38 million children under the age of five are overweight or obese.
Most obese people understand that the extra weight may cause diabetes, heart disease and hypertension – and that obesity is not considered conventionally attractive. So if a pill promises appetite control and weight loss, the product leaps off the shelves.
The way to the Promised Land?
Enter a plant from Southern Africa – Hoodia gordonii. Desperate dieters looked to Hoodia to open the door to the Promised Land of weight loss.
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