Hoodia weight loss supplements are the hot product dieters around the world are talking about these days. Although hoodia’s popularity is only growing, the question remains, does everyone lose weight with this product? Unfortunately for the people wanting to make an informed choice before they slim down there wallet, it’s just too soon to know; we are going to have to wait a bit before we can tally the votes. It was just last November when hoodia’s popularity grew enormously after 60 minutes aired it’s segment “African Plant May Help Fight Fat”. So what sources are available now for dieter’s to turn to get a general idea if losing weight with hoodia is in their future.

One of the most trusted sources that people looking to slim down usually turn to first is scientific research and studies. The first study performed on the hoodia gordonii succulent was not actually a weight loss study; it was during an examination of indigenous plants of South Africa that CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) realized when the hoodia plant was feed to animals, the animals ate less and lost weight. Another study that was conducted on hoodia and losing weight was conducted by Phytopharm; a double blind clinical study with an overweight group needing to lose weight but otherwise healthy. The use of the hoodia gordonii caused a dramatic reduction in the average daily calorie intake. This reduction in calories was accompanied by a large reduction in body fat content.

Another source to look at with regards to the hoodia’s effectiveness for slimming down is the people at the point of origin, The San People themselves. The San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are not interested in losing weight, but they are interested in not getting hungry on long hunting expeditions. These African Bushmen have a history of eating the hoodia succulent for thousands of years and as they tell it, hoodia not only curbs their appetite for food but actually gives them energy. The San live very simple lives, these are the same people pictured in the film “The God’s Must Be Crazy”, there is no reason to doubt what they say is true.

A source where you will only get positive statements claiming hoodia helps in weight reduction would be the hoodia brand name testimonials. These weight loss testimonials are good if you feel the hoodia brand displaying these testimonials can be trusted. Below are a couple of testimonial examples of people losing weight from two of the top hoodia brands currently selling on the net.

Testimonial example from Official Desert Burn Hoodia web site:
Subject: My cousin's wife Story _Bruce, this is one of the people I gave Desert Burn to lose weight. She will send a picture soon. _Thanks, _T
I am a nineteen year old stay home mother. Before I had my son it was _easy to keep the weight off. Right after I had my son I keep dieting and _trying different ways to loose weight everything I tried was not working. So a friend of mine told me about the Desert Burn with Hoodia in it. I was very interested in trying it so I started taking them. My eating habits have decreased alot and have lost ten pounds in the last two weeks since I began taking them.

Testimonial example from Official Hoodoba Hoodia web site
"I gained almost 50 pounds in the last three years despite my efforts to lose weight. I exercise most days and I tried to watch what I eat, I once joined weight watchers and gained weight on the program, I had tried medications and talking to my Doctor, nothing seemed to be of help. At the end of the day after I get home I was ready to eat the world. I have not lasted more than a few days on a diet during this last year. Then a friend pleaded with me to try the new Hoodoba™ diet pills. To my amazement they actually worked! It was a magnificent deception. They literally fooled my stomach into thinking it was full. Taking Hoodoba™ I didn't have to watch what I eat because I had no desire to eat. It took just 3 month to lose all the weight I had gained in 3 years. Thank you so much. Hoodoba™ has given me a new perspective on life! Here are my photos."

Like the testimonials on losing weight, another place to look that you can get hit and miss information within people’s claims of melting off the pounds is on hoodia discussion forums. To get effective information from these hoodia boards you need to hang around them for a while and get to know the posters. Ask questions and look at forum users total postings, you can usually get a sense if they are a competitor knocking another’s product, a promoter attempting to promoting their brand or an actual real person looking to lose weight and giving helpful advice. In closing you will find many people claiming successful hoodia weight loss and other stating failure in their attempt to slim down. Just be careful and do hoodia research before you buy so that you don’t just have a slimming effect on your bank account.