Hoodia Gordonii: The All-Natural Appetite Suppressant

It is difficult to trace out exactly since when the tribes of theKalahari Desert in South Africa have been using the stem of the HoodiaGordonii plant to ward off their hunger. Hoodia grows wild in Africa. ADutch anthropologist was the first European to describe the plant. In1937, he was studying the habits of nomadic hunters and noted that theyoften ate the plant when food and water were scarce. He mentioned thatthe Hoodia Gordonii plant was not particularly tasty, but it had thedesirable effect of reducing appetite and thirst and thereby can beproduced an effective drug to reduce weight.