All You Wanted to Know About Hoodia Gordonii

If you're struggling to lose weight, you know it pretty well that you can't win the struggle against obesity unless you know how to control your hunger pangs. Your countless weight loss resolutions would come to nothing since every time you try to reduce your food intake for the aim of weight loss, hunger would force you to break your resolution and consume more of those 'forbidden foods'.

You've in all likelihood used over-the-counter diet pills with the hope of putting an end to this pain in the neck. Diet pills might suppress your appetite to an extent but they come with harmful side effects. Essentially, they would harm you more than help. The best appetite suppressant is one which is entirely herbal and natural. And Hoodia Gordonii is one such weight loss supplement!

Hoodia Gordonii is a plant cultivated along the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Its effectiveness as an appetite suppressant is not a new breakthrough! In fact, the natives of the Kalahari Desert have been using it for 1000s of years in order to suppress their hunger. They did not do it for weight loss though; instead, they used it to keep hungriness at bay when on a hunting expedition, since it would be extremely inconvenient to burden themselves with food supplies at the time of hunting.

It's strange that man discovered its advantageous effects on weight loss as late as 1960's. The logic is that by suppressing your appetite, Hoodia rids you of those intolerable and painful hunger pangs which make weight loss so hard for you! Put differently, Hoodia makes it easier for you to lose weight!

The bad news is that the demand for Hoodia Gordonii far exceeds its short supply. One reason behind its short supply is that since it is native to the climate of Kalahari Desert, it would be hard to cultivate it in any other place. Secondly, the government of Republic of South Africa has imposed numerous limitations on the cultivation of Hoodia, thereby making it virtually impossible for non citizens to cultivate it in their native countries!

Thirdly, as soon as the beneficial effects of Hoodia on weight loss was discovered, a lot of dishonest people began to cut down and steal many Hoodia plants in order to make Hoodia products from them; this successively further dwindled its supply. If you ever thought why Hoodia is so pricey, it's because of its limited supply!

And taking full advantage of this situation is a group of dishonest profiteers who are more concerned in your wallet than your health. These marketers commonly use poor quality or premature Hoodia plants to develop Hoodia supplements, and then scam people by distributing them as 'authentic' Hoodia products! There are other people who would sell supplements made from other assortments of Hoodia; keep in mind that only the supplements made from Hoodia Gordonii can help suppress your appetite!

The best way to protect yourself from these scam artists is by buying Hoodia from reputed vendors, online or offline. I do not buy Hoodia from anyplace else except Amazon.com, and even there, I have to be extremely careful of what I buy since there several vendors selling different versions of Hoodia.

Cost is a good way to determine the genuineness of the supplement. If it's too cheap, you can conclude that is a fake product!