REPRESENT.CO.ZA: "From CBS news:
Each year, people spend more than $40 billion on products designed to help them slim down. None of them seem to be working very well.

Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it'll be tripping off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.

It's very different from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia doesn't stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by making you think you?re full, even if you've eaten just a morsel. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports.
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Hoodia is a bitter-tasting cactus-like plant. 60 Minutes was told that if it wanted to try hoodia, it would have to go to Africa. Why? Because the only place in the world where hoodia grows wild is in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. "
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SABCnews.com - south_africa/general "San call on govt to stop illegal sale of hoodia

March 09, 2006, 15:00

The San community has called on the governments of South Africa, Switzerland and Germany to stop the illegal and unscrupulous sale of products made from the hoodia plant.

The indigenous plant has traditionally been used by the San as an appetite suppressant and is currently being developed by Unilever, a consumer goods company, into an anti-obesity drug. The San have signed two profit-sharing agreements for hoodia, but neither has yielded any revenue for the community. "