
Leslie Stahl, CBS news anchor for 60 MINUTES, said, she had no after effects no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. It completely eliminated her appetite. "I'd have to say Hoodia did work," says Stahl. Read more here
The BBC's Correspondent's Tom Mangold traveled to Africa and sampled the appetite suppressing Hoodia, a plant which may make Kalahari bushmen millionaires. Read more here
From Scotland's Scotsman Newspaper: The answer to obesity in the West? "IT IS my food, my water and my medicine," said Kalahari bushman Hans Kortman, fondly describing the cactus he was chewing. But the apparently nondescript plant has two properties Kortman failed to mention. It promises to provide the pharmaceutical industry with its Holy Grail - a safe, natural cure for obesity. Read more here.
From the UKs Guardian Newspaper: It's green, prickly and sour, but this plant could cure obesity and save an ancient way of life Bushmen of the Kalahari stand to benefit from development of hoodia, which curbs appetite. Read more here
Cordis reports: Bush medicine set to deliver breakthrough obesity remedy. A cactus native to the Kalahari Desert region of southern Africa and used by indigenous San bushmen to stave off hunger during long hunting expeditions is to be developed into a remedy to fight obesity. Read more here.
The National Geographic reports: 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. But now their traditional knowledge may be their salvation; they stand to make a lot of money—and gain much respect—from the international marketing of an appetite-suppressant they have been using for thousands of generations. Read more here.
Wired News reported on Hoodia: Samson Mvubu's corner of the bustling Faraday Market is crammed with bundles of bark, roots, bulbs and animal parts used to treat all manner of maladies, ranging from madness to coughs and infections. Mvubu is an "inyanga" -- a traditional herbalist. He spent years learning to treat illnesses using plants found in the fields and forests surrounding his village. Read more here.
Komo news reported: The Kalahari is 100,000 square miles of African desert. The San people ,the bushmen who hunt there, come from a different age. Now, drug companies are tapping into the San's knowledge, and betting millions that these bushmen can help the most advanced societies on earth. Read more here.
The UK's Science Museum reports on Hoodia. Read more here.