Although its benefits regarding weight loss has been discovered only recently, the cactus itself is not a new kid on the block. Hoodia is a cactus plant grown along the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. The native Bushmen have been using it for thousands of years to suppress their appetite.

Since carrying food supplies on a hunting expedition could cause great inconvenience, those Bushmen would consume the Hoodia cactus before going on a hunting mission so that they won’t be plagued by pangs of hunger. Hoodia would help them suppress their appetite for no less than 24 hours.

Now you maybe are wondering how this African plant could help you with weight loss. Well, if you have been struggling with weight loss for any length of time, you would agree with me that the biggest enemy and stumbling block in the way of your weight loss success is hunger. This is where Hoodia comes to your aid. Hoodia helps you get rid of hunger, so that you are free to focus on your diet. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you are struggling to lose weight, you know it pretty well that you cannot win the battle against obesity unless you know how to control your hunger pangs. Your countless weight loss resolutions would come to nothing because every time you try to reduce your food intake for the purpose of weight loss, hunger would force you to break your resolution and eat more of those ‘forbidden foods’.

You have probably used over-the-counter diet pills with the hope of putting an end to this nuisance. Diet pills may suppress your appetite to an extent but they come with harmful side effects. In essence, they would harm you more than help. The best appetite suppressant is one which is completely herbal and natural. And Hoodia Gordonii is one such weight loss supplement. Read the rest of this entry »

If our bodies need to burn a certain number of calories to maintain our body weight, then it should be easy to lose weight, shouldn’t it?

Common sense would say that all we have to do is slash the number of calories that we consume.

Unfortunately there are a lot of studies that show that this does not work long term. A study published in the American Journal of Nutrition, for instance, showed that a group of individuals on a low calorie diet, who lost an average of 26 percent of their body weight during the course of the study, were not able to keep that weight off.

EVERYONE  in the study regained almost 75 percent of their lost weight within three years of completing the study. And many studies show even worse results than that. Read the rest of this entry »