Hoodia

Leslie Stahl, of CBS News, reported on hoodia last year. In fact she ate it. She said that she had no after effects – no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn't hungry all day, even at mealtime. She also reported that she had no desire to eat or drink the entire day. "I'd have to say it did work," says Stahl.

The Bushmen of the Kalahari have been eating hoodia for a very long time. The first scientific investigation of the plant was conducted at South Africa’s national laboratory. Because Bushmen were known to eat hoodia, it was included in a study of indigenous foods.

"What they found was when they fed it to animals, the animals ate it and lost weight," says Dr. Richard Dixey, who heads an English pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm that is trying to develop weight-loss products based on hoodia.

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