Health foods are the entire craze now. Exercising and having a healthy body is a top priority for many people these days. With this comes a plethora of different forms of exercises and diets. One of the fast up and coming health food lifestyle is the Hoodia Gordonii.

The benefits of using Hoodia Gordonii are by far more striking than what has been available in the past. Compared to health foods right now it has more health benefits and is more understood. With this method, you have no diets to stick to, it decreases appetite so you dont feel starved, gives a great feeling of general good health and energy, completely natural and safe to use, wont keep you awake at night, no specialty food and most of all no stimulants and harmful side effects.

Being classified in South Africa as a food and not a drug, Hoodia Gordoniis only side effect will cause your brain to believe that you are full which only lasts for 24 hours even without the sufficient amount of food ingested. This could be aproblem if you need the energy and power to do strenuous activities.

Local SAN bushmen whose ancestors have been using the plant for thousand years, confirms that there are no negative side effects with Hoodia.Gordonii.

The great worry associated with Hoodia is if it is abused by individuals with eating disorders that wants rapid weight lose, individuals with distorted body images who want to have intense weight lose in a short period of time, often having a disorder called anorexia nervosa with or without bulimia, is becoming more common and it is a life threatening disorder when not acted upon.

A proposed warning for use with Hoodia Gordonii as a dietary supplement would be:

- not to be used in childhood, pregnancy, or lactating mothers

- not to be used by individuals with eating disorder

- or those who are underweight or within a normal weight range.

Some comments have already been made in the media about the dangers of Hoodia Gordonii use in the extreme dieter with an eating disorder.

No serious or harmful side effects of Goodia Gordonii have been reported; in fact it has been in the African food chain for many years. SAN Bushmen of the Kalahi, one of the worlds most oldest and most primitive tribes, had been eating Hoodia for thousand of years to starve off hunger during long hunting trips.

Although there are no published long term studies on the safety of Hoodia, it has have been used for thousand of years. But the SAN Bushmen tribe of hunter-gatherers do not take pills for blood pressures, diabetes, cholesterol, depression and other diseases like we do, yet they have been able to gain their energy during hunting times. They say that it can even cure their hung-overs and upset stomach.

Hoodia simply has not reached a wide enough market yet or undergone safety testing to know what the side effects, drug interaction and safety concerns are, if there is any. But the main dangers have been tested for and it is shown that it is not dangerous.

To make sure, supplement companies put a standard recommended dose on bottles. There are people though who self regulate and take more than the stated amount. Some would say that they should double the dosage to feel the effect. It really depends on a persons weight, diet, lifestyle and metabolism. The best way to feel its effect is to follow the exact dosage and to be patient.

Since Hoodia Gordonii is an organic with no synthetic or artificial appetite control agents it is also a natural substance that works on suppressing your appetite. It is not a stimulant and has no side effect. Hoodia Gordonii acts as an appetite suppressant and is said to have a feel-good aphrodisiac quality felt mainly by men.

Of course there is always someone who would experience a reaction even to the safest supplement, so, if you feel anything different and uncomfortable, you must quickly relay this information to your doctor or your dietary consultant.