Hoodia vs. Anorexia?

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Lately I've been researching a little plant called "hoodia gordonii"...it's apparently becoming trendy in diet pills.

But apparently, the thing that makes this pill work is that it makes you not hungry...therefore you don't eat, don't take in calories, etc.

So if someone were to take a hoodia gordonii diet pill which therefore made them not eat, would that make the person anorexic?

I don't know, it doesn't sound too healthy to me. But apparently it's one of the best pills out right now. What makes this okay to market if it basically encourages starvation? The pill doesn't provide any nutrition...I don't get it!
 
Well, it probably depends what hoodia does to the body and how someone uses it. Water can be used as an appetite suppressant, too, but drinking it doesn't necessarily make you anorexic--unless you are obsessive. I'd be more worried about what kinds of side effects hoodia causes or if it's addictive.
 
Anorexia is more than just not wanting to eat, or not needing to eat... it's a distored body image... and thinking or seeing yourself as fat when you actually are 5'7 and weigh 87 pounds.

I personally wouldn't take any kind of diet pill... because I don't beleive they work long term.. the only thing that I believe does work long term is changing your lifestyle and learning portion control...
 
I agree. Anorexia is like a mental game. Someone that is thin and beautiful looks in the mirror and see's an ugly, fat pig. It is in their head that they need to starve themselves.
I think the diet pill is different because someone who is anorexic wouldnt put anything in their body. Someone taking that pill with hoodia gordonii in it may just wanna fend off night cravings or eating every 2 hours. I think they are similar but not the same. Interesting topic . It caught my attention. :)
Thanks for the info.
 
It sounds to me like its just like most dietpills/appetite suppressants. Many people use these, as jeepgirl says, to limit, not eliminate eating.
I too would be more concerned about the side effects. These sorts of things maybe helpful to some, perhaps if they have a compulsive eating disorder, but I cant help but think, for the average Joe, does it teach any good habits which will see the weight gone forever, like dealing successfully with temptation, using things other than food for comfort, or just helping us to be confident that we can conquer the bad habits we developed in the first place.
Just on the thought of side effects, I dont know if there still are, but years ago there use to be diet pills sold over the counter which apparently contained speed, caffeine etc, and werent particularly good for people. Its always best to check out the risks, it would be a tradgedy to replace one health issue (overweight) with possibly another more serious one.
 
Hoodia works.

I have a problem overeating. I have for a while. Hoodia took care of it completely.

I still get hungry... but it's nothing like before. I still eat, but only a fraction of what I ate before.

I don’t get jittery or nervous... I'm just less hungry. And when I do eat, I only need a little bit (and I'm only interested in a little bit) and then I'm completely satisfied.

There is something about hoodia that I can't exactly put my finger on... meaning I can't exactly explain how it works, but it does.

Where as before I feasted on Burger King and Taco Bell, now salads turn me on. Fruits and vegetables and healthy stuff is all I really crave.

Since I started taking it (about three weeks ago) my eating habits have changed and I've lost 10 pounds. My body fat percentage drops every day. I don't care what other people say, this stuff works... and I'm healthier for it.
 
It's important to remeber that some of these companies marketing that they contain it don't.
 
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Yes...

There are many companies that market Hoodia, but contain little or no Hoodia. I did read how Trimspa got into trouble and now has to pay fines.

I purchase my Hoodia from hoodiaproducts.com. It's expensive... like $50 a bottle (for one month supply). I liked them because they have an independent lab verify the product contains actual Hoodia.

I found another company, hoodiasupreme.com, which also verifies through an independent lab, and was nearly half the price, but I found it was not nearly as strong as the first stuff I bought.

In any event, my weight loss has stabilized. I lost 15 pounds pretty easily, and now I'm still eating less, but no more weight is coming off.

I've started a weight lifting/aerobics class, and I'm hoping that will help.

Yes there are a lot of scams out there, but Hoodia indeed works. I'm glad I tried it.
 
Look, you have to eat, your metabolism will never learn to work properly suppressing your appetite. The key is eating healthy, not, not eating! A simple example. 5 baby carrot sticks is 25 to 30 calories, when you eat them you burn 9 to 15 calories just eating them, because chewing and digesting, fires up your metabolism. Because you ate something healthy, almost half the calories you took in will have been burned just from eating.

The body works a certain way, suppression is not a natural internal reaction, so even if you lose weight using suppression, you will find it very hard to keep the weight off, because you have not trained the body to be a natural fat burning machine, which it can be with a sensible diet, lots of water and some mild exercise.

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Yea but...

There is a difference between 1500 calories and 3500 calories, and if a supplement made from a cactus can make that difference, I'm all for it. To use your double negative, it's not that I'm not not eating. It's that I now have control over my appetite.
 
I agree I have a problem with over eating and cravings. I started taking hoodia a few weeks ago. Hoodia has made it easier to deiceid if I am hungry or my mind is just telling me to satisfy my cravings. Did you take it three times a day every day?
 
You can buy hoodia green tea pills at my grocery store for $7 a package. I tried them out and they barely had an effect on my appetite. What really kills appetite (not to say that anyone should stop eating) is Ephedrine. Taken in moderation, it is very effective.
 
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