Hoodia A Waste of Your Money for Weight Loss, or Does it Work.
Much has been said about the "miracle" diet supplement, and the thing many people are asking does it really work for fat problems? With millions being spent on hoodia all around the globe, if the advertisers hype proves true, we must be getting close to the end of obesity as we know it. I wish it was that easy to Fat Reduction...
Firstly we always need to make the distinction between short term fat problems and lasting fat problems. The rate of regain after fat problems programs is shocking, I have seen statistics showing as much as 80% of people who lose fat will be back to their old weight within 3 years, but conservtively close to two thirds of people will regain their weight. It is very important to address the success of a fat problems program by its success long term not just what it does in the short term.
We have to ask does Hoodia work long term for fat problems? In this article I'm going to go behind the marketing hype to see if we can find what’s really happening.
If you were to type Hoodia into Yahoo I’m sure you would get many thousands of sites advertising Hoodia and most of them will make claims of some fairly amazing results. I believe it is very important to look at the facts about hoodia and other fat problems supplements so that you may avoid another fat problems scam.
In this item I make some generalisations about buisnesses promoting these supplements, and I just wanted to say that not all buisnesses selling them are bad, some will be honest and are selling the real stuff, but you need to know that it is very easy for some dishonest buisnesses to sell capsules with cheap or bogus ingredients in them disguised as hoodia. I’m also not going to get into the specifics of weather or not hoodia works but I’m going to give you some information so that you can make up your own decision.
The advertising for Hoodia sounds amazing, who wouldn’t want to sit on your couch all day, take a couple of capsules and have your extra weight simply melt off your body, but does this really sound like a sound healthy idea. If you look at the history of quick sloutions over the years as I have you will know that they very rarely work, and when they do the chances of you staying thin are virtually impossible. Quick fixes for fat problems will never work long term as they are simply working against the homeostasis of your body, for every miracle fat problems capsule there is a long list of adverse side effects.
It is amazing how many people I hear from who tell me they completely believed the advertising, and why wouldn’t they the advertising is very good, they bought $100 worth of capsules and saw absolutely no results from it, a complete waste of money. As you will see shortly the market is full of counterfeit products which may not contain any hoodia.
When you first hear of the miracle cure for fat problems it is hard not to believe it has some promise, I may have believed it too if I didn’t know the history of these capsules. The talk began a few years ago when a poplar late night TV show showed the exciting new fat problems capsule. Very soon after this the internet lit up and late night marketers didn’t take long to tell the sleepless about how they could solve all their weight problems. While honest companies began trying to get their hands on some hoodia, millions of spam mail started advertising junk herbs that their senders had thrown into capsules to make some quick money, at the expense of frustrated dieters.
Used by native people in southern Africa over generations to suppress their hunger over their long trips, hoodia in its natural state in theory should work as a decent hunger suppressant (although if you have read more of my articles you will know suppressing your appetite is rarely a good idea). In the United States and many other countries around the world regulation of supplements is still very limited, allowing almost anyone to make their own and sell it quickly; this problem ensures a high probability of being ripped off.
Hoodia is actually a slow growing crop and it is only grown in a small part in the south of Africa. In spite of the fact supply is severely limited the amount of "hoodia" sold around the globe is surprisingly high. You can make up your own mind but for me I seems like a large amount of the hoodia sold must be counterfeit.
Not only are the regulations on these supplements not in your favour but even now there are no credible scientific studies that show the small amounts of hoodia extract in the capsules sold really does anything for fat problems in humans at all.
An important point on hunger suppressants, they are rarely a good idea. When you feel hungry or have cravings your body is giving you a hint that it needs more nutrition to keep your body working properly. Although sometimes these cravings can be misguided (like cravings for sugar or junk food) these are important messages to listen to as eating regularly and feeding your body the nutrition it needs is essential to maintaining a high metabolic rate. A lower metabolic rate can only lead to one thing: Regaining more fat than you started with.
This leaves you two big concerns:
1. The capsules you buy may not even be legitimate.
2. Even if you are buying the real thing (many of the larger supplement buisnesses are honest) there is no proof that the extract used in these capsules will work for you (as apposed to the whole plant) and will result in lasting fat problems
So does hoodia work? The jury is still out on this one, there needs to be much more long term study before we will have an answer, but with all the problems associated with it and the problems associated with hunger suppressants and long term fat problems it is highly unlikely that it will work for you.
This is something I hear myself saying constantly... There are no quick sloutions, ultimately we all need to deal with the problems that caused us to gain extra fat in the first place. If you honestly want to lose fat and feel good there is plenty of credible research proving that real exercise and a diet of nutritious real whole foods works consistantly for fat problems. It’s not the sexy quick fix I know your looking for but it does work.
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