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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.
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Sampling the appetite suppressing Hoodia
BBC
News: Imagine
this: an organic pill that kills the appetite and attacks
obesity.
It has no known side-effects, and contains a molecule that
fools your brain into believing you are full.
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Hoodia
Diet Pills
LONDON, Aug. 7
A wild plant used by generations of native Bushmen in South
Africa's Kalahari Desert to help them avoid starvation in
the dry, hot sands could make them millionaires if it is
successfully developed into a weight-loss drug for Westerners.
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Prickly solution
to obesity?
By Heather Tomlinson
A plant used to stem the hunger pangs of African tribes
could soon be added to the meals of obese westerners desperate
to lose their excess pounds.
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Africa's
Bushmen May Get Rich From Diet-Drug Secret
Sidelined
over decades because of their dwindling numbers and ancient
way of life, the San have been reduced to a few struggling
communities living on the fringes of society.
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