Hoodia Gordonii appetite suppressant – As seen on TV Channels
Every Hoodia product website’s homepage is made colorful and attractive by adding logos of following channels with “As seen on / endorsed by” prefixed.
- BBC News
- “60 minutes” of CBS News
- ABC News
With these images of TV channel logos and videos, website visitors get a feeling that a particular brand of Hoodia Product is being identified and featured by these news channels. But, in reality none of the channels mentioned above have reviewed and featured any Hoodia diet pill, diet shake, Hoodia Juice or Hoodia patches till date.
The reporters of BBC News and CBS News had visited Kalhari Desert of South Africa to see and know about Hoodia Gordonii plant, its appetite suppressing ability. They also met San Bushmen, CSIR Scientists, Photopharm officials to collect details. They covered these things and broadcasted in their channels.
Remember, Not even a single brand of hoodia product was featured or endorsed as genuine by these channels.
The reporters visited the place where Hoodia Gordonii plants grow, ate a piece of aerial stem of raw Hoodia Gordonii and reported that they did not feel hungry throughout the day and did not had food that day. It has become a habit of Hoodia sellers to include these logos to make their customers feel theirs is a genuine Hoodia product. (the market is flooded by 100′s of fake Hoodia products)
Do not get deceived and fooled by these TV channel logos in Hoodia selling websites. These have nothing to do with genuineness of Hoodia pills.
Just to create awareness we have made a brief review of the stories on “Hoodia Gordonii” as seen on TV channels.
BBC News report on Hoodia
On 30 July, 2002 BBC News telecasted a visual reports on a Kalahari cactus that is said to have appetite suppressing quality and was being widely discussed for its application in weight loss industry. On 1st June, 2003 BBC News telecasts a documentary showing its reporter Tom Mangold’s visit to Kalhari desert of South Africa to sample the Hoodia plant.
The report says, kalhari desert cactus boosts UK drug to produce an anti-obesity drug. The UK drug company Phytopharm takes the patent for the appetite-suppressing ingredient P 57 in hoodia. The company signs a deal with US giant Pfizer to produce and market P 57 anti-obesity drugs.
Tom Mangold reports, “Deep inside the African Kalahari desert, grows an ugly cactus-like plant called the Hoodia. It thrives in extremely high temperatures, and takes years to mature. The San Bushmen of the Kalahari, one of the world’s oldest and most primitive tribes, had been eating the Hoodia for thousands of years, to stave off hunger during long hunting trips”
He explains how hoodia gordonii’s P57 fools our brain into believing we are full even when we are not. He eats the plant and says it was bitter. He interviews Dr Petro Terblanche of CSIR, Dr Richard Dixey of Phytopharm, local bushmen. He describes how the bushmen were treated and their lifestyle.
He also talks about fake hoodia products on the market. He warns people from using such fake hoodia pills. He also talks about Hoodia P57 patent violations by existing hoodia sellers. To know more about BBC News Hoodia documentary visit http://news.bbc.co.uk
Hoodia on ABC News On Monday 25 August 2003, ABC News telecasted Hoodia Documentary made by Tom Mangold of BBC News.
Hoodia on “60 minutes” of CBS News
Lesley Stahl, reporter of CNS news reports on Nov. 21, 2004 about Hoodia as an African plant that may help fight fat and questions whether this could be the best weapon in war on obesity. 60 minutes team headed by reporter Lesley Stahl visits Kalahari Desert of South Africa with a local aboriginal Bushman to know about the plant named ” Hoodia Gordonii” which is said have suppress appetite.
She asks the bushman about the plant and its hunger controlling property. The bushman cuts a hoodia plant and removes its sharp spines. Lesley eats that and describes the taste as “a little cucumbery in texture, but not bad.” Stahl says she had no after effects – no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the entire day. “I’d have to say it did work,” says Stahl. To know more read “60 minutes report” at www.cbsnews.com
Conclusion: None of the above TV channels have endorsed any Hoodia Products as genuine. The documentaries shown on TV tell us that Hoodia Gordonii Plant is able to suppress appetite effectively. They also cover how Hoodia Gordonii Plants’ P57 molecule suppresses appetite, research findings and Phytopharm’s patent on P57. Do not get influenced by these logos on Hoodia product websites while deciding authenticity and genuineness of the product.
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