Cactus Diet - Diet Plan Outline

The Cactus Diet is better known as hoodia gordonii (pronounced HOO-dee-ah). It is also called hoodia, xhooba, khoba, Ghaap, hoodia cactus, and South African desert cactus. Hoodia is a cactus that's advertised to suppress appetite and promote weight loss. Hoodia is sold in capsule, liquid, or tea form in health food stores, television and on the Internet. Hoodia gordonii can be found in the semi-deserts of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Hoodia grows in clumps of green upright stems. It takes about 5 years before hoodia's pale purple flowers appear and the cactus can be harvested. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only the hoodia gordonii variety is believed to contain the natural appetite suppressant.

Although hoodia (Cactus Diet) became a commercial appetitie suppressant relatively recently, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have been using it for a long time to ward off hunger and thirst during nomadic hunting trips.

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