Monday, November 26. 2007
Hoodia
I don't normally like to blog about hoodia, since mostly it's a scam. We sell the actual plant, but good luck trying to figure out how to eat it. But the Houston Chronicle has this to say about it:
That should settle that.
What science says
There is little research to document hoodia's effectiveness. The only research with humans found those given a hoodia compound ate 1,000 calories a day less than a control group, but the pharmaceutical company-conducted study was never published. The only published study found rats injected with hoodia reduced their appetite by 40 percent to 60 percent.
Should you take it?
Most experts advise against taking hoodia supplements mostly because of the lack of evidence backing it but also because of skepticism that many products available for sale have any hoodia in them. Hoodia is a slow-growing, endangered shrub too scarce to account for all the products claiming to have it.
There is little research to document hoodia's effectiveness. The only research with humans found those given a hoodia compound ate 1,000 calories a day less than a control group, but the pharmaceutical company-conducted study was never published. The only published study found rats injected with hoodia reduced their appetite by 40 percent to 60 percent.
Should you take it?
Most experts advise against taking hoodia supplements mostly because of the lack of evidence backing it but also because of skepticism that many products available for sale have any hoodia in them. Hoodia is a slow-growing, endangered shrub too scarce to account for all the products claiming to have it.
That should settle that.
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