A Revolutionary Product Called Hoodia Part 2
The rediscovery of the wealth of the wonder drug Hoodia was a chance occurrence. While scientists were busy searching a cure for HIV/AIDS they found it and the test conducted revealed that the expedition turned out worthwhile.
Centuries back, San tribe of Africa, in raw form to reduce hunger and minimize the food intake, used Hoodia. These primitive people were completely unaware of the fact that anyone can ever use it as an obesity-reducing drug. The hoard for extracting the beneficial ingredient, Hoodia Gordonii started once the discovery came up. Hoodia Gordonii consists of p57 molecules that are effective in suppressing hunger.
Hoodia is quite effective itself yet research is on to find out if it carries any side effect. Until now, researchers are satisfied with its weight reducing quality.
Health woes have increased considerably during the course of years. Various factors contribute to it. As a result, even obesity, which during the earlier ages was not a major malady, is spreading widely. There are a number of causes of obesity ranging from diet imbalance to emotional and hormonal disorder. Obesity is itself a disease and the mother of other fatal diseases. It often makes the individual an easy target to ostracism as well.
A slim body is not only a medical boon but a source of mental satisfaction as well. It is not easy to curb hunger but what, if you do not feel hungry. When we forget to do a particular task allocated to us the most common question that the other person asks is, ‘do you ever forget to take meals?’ the surprising effect of Hoodia is that it makes you oblivious of hunger. You can skip meals as desired and can yet remain fresh and agile. The ingredient p57 triggers the hypothalamus of our brain and makes the body feel that the stomach is full.
Hoodia is an idyllic alternative when it comes to diet pills because unlike its other synthetic counterparts it is devoid of addictive and stimulating effects. Addictive effect of a drug is hard to combat and it makes the user completely dependent on it while the stimulating effect enhances the agility of the user temporarily affecting him or her adversely in the end.
It is often observed that the affect of weight reducing drugs is temporary. The user puts on the extra weight again once he or she leaves it. This is not so with Hoodia. The effect remains even long after its use, making it highly useful.
Thus with Hoodia as an answer to the problem of obesity a lot could be done to reduce the frequency of fatal diseases among overweight people. When one is able to reduce unwanted deposition of fat from the body surely the outcome will be a healthy physique and a carefree mind. Hoodia is also recognized as a mood enhancer that further adds to the beneficial affects it has.
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Mediterranean Diet – Lose Weight Quickly, Easily & Safely
If you are looking for a way to lose fifty pounds in two weeks, a high protein diet, a low carb diet, a fruit diet, a no fat diet, a blood type diet, a juice fast, a diet named after a place in Miami, a grapefruit diet, a cactus diet, a coffee and cigarette diet, a diet that includes sweets, a diet based on your body type, a diet based on an ancient religion or a diet based on your hair color, then this article is NOT for you.
Fad and crash diets, such as the ones described above are not only unhealthy but they also cause rebound weight gain. Also most diets, even though diet gurus write them, cause an initial weight loss but the ultimate result is that you gain all of the weight back the minute you go off the plan. If you don’t gain it back within a couple of diets, you are likely to gain it all back plus a bit more within a year.
Crash diets dehydrate you, low calorie diets put your body into starvation mode so you plateau so you can’t lose one more pound and high protein diets stress your kidneys and clog your arteries.
So how does one lose weight?
There is only one answer to this question.
You need to expend more calories than you are taking in. Restricting certain foods, eating so-called fat burning foods, or dehydrating yourself with special pills or teas does not do it. It is simple math. The only way is to eat a little less and exercise a little more. Here is the equation below:
Eating Less + Exercising More = Weight Loss.
This is not a magical formula, it is just logic. It is also not a fast way to lose weight. As I have mentioned before, this is not an article about how to lose ten pounds in three days or 30 pounds in a month. It is about safe, healthy weight loss.
In order to lose weight safely and without putting yourself at risk for such health hazards as dehydration, kidney failure, malnutrition, exhaustion, nervous dysfunction, tooth loss, dull hair, wrinkles, cellulite, sudden heart failure or stroke and lose the weight so that it stays off, you should lose no more than approximately two pounds a week!
Although that might not sound like a large amount of weight to lose it actually is! If you lose 2 pounds a week that means you can achieve a weight loss of ten pounds a month! If you only have twenty pounds to lose then your weight loss is not only quite rapid, but you have the extra guarantee that it will stay off because you have followed a sensible exercise plan that did not involve starving, exhausting or depriving yourself. If you are willing to drop your impatience and desire for immediate gratification and stick to an exercise plan and healthy eating habits, then a Mediterranean Diet is for you. Remember being slim is only good if you are able to enjoy it!
Do You Need to Lose Weight?
Fascination with Fat
If you want to lose weight, you first need to assess whether you need to actually lose weight or are simply a fashion victim. Unfortunately this society is fascinated with fat – who has it and who doesn’t. As we are persuaded by so many images in the media that persuade us to believe that you can never be too thin, many of us are bad judges of our actual body weight.
If you are under the age of eighteen and reading this book, the first thing you need to do is consult with your parent about your plans to lose weight. Have her make an appointment with a physician so that he can indicate to you whether or not you are a candidate for weight loss.
If you are an adult, it is possible that you may not be overweight and are just trying to be, as Bridget Jones put it in Bridget Jones Diary “a stick insect with eyelashes.” It is also very possible that you know you need to lose weight but have no idea where to start.
If you are obese and you know it, then you have to check with a physician first to see how your health is before you embark on any exercise program or plan. The same is also true if you have any kind of medical condition but especially a thyroid condition or heart condition. Some physicians may not recommend a weight loss program for those who are over 40 as due to genetics and hormonal changes some people naturally just round out or gain weight in a way that simply cannot be changed. If your doctor tells you your spreading hips are due to menopause or genetics, believe him! It is not clever to fool with Mother Nature.
Publisher & author: Roy Barker. Roy has an indepth and long established background with the vitamins, minerals and health industry and has researched and experimented with many diets over a thirty year period. Roy is also the author of Safe and Easy Weightloss, a downloadable e-book based on the famous Mediterranean Diet and often used by those with heart conditions and those who seek an effective and safe way to shed weight and more importantly, keep it off. It can be viewed at safe-and-easy-weightloss.com More articles and related site can be viewed at weightloss-diet-health-vitamins.com
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