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Diet pills come in so many varieties it is beginning to get ridiculous. The industry of diet pills has expanded rapidly for one obvious reason: we have expanded rapidly as well. There are fat burners, fat blockers, nutritional supplements, magnesium supplements and more all being marketed as diet pills, but the most effective diet pills out there are still appetite suppressants. Now the type of prescription diet pills that your doctor would prescribe if you met the criteria are appetite suppressants, but amphetamine based ones. These diet pills can be harmful in a variety of ways, such as being hard on your heart and even having psychological side effects. There are a couple appetite suppressing diet pills that fall outside the category of amphetamines. The number one being sold is green tea extract, and while being all natural green tea extract is still a stimulant with side effects. The best appetite suppressant to help you with your diet is not a stimulant at all. It comes from the deserts of South Africa and works on appetite by tricking your brain into believing that you have just eaten rather than stimulating the central nervous system. The diet pills I am talking about are obviously Hoodia Gordonii extract. There are no side effects, no risk of addiction, and no risk of overdose with these all natural diet pills.

Weight loss drugs actually go back further than you might think. Of course most of us would believe that the first weight loss drugs (amphetamines) were developed in the fifties because these were the first to gain popularity. Actually the first weight loss drugs were developed in the thirties and were not appetite suppressants, they were "thermogenic weight loss drugs". This means that they increased body temperature so that food was spent as heat energy rather than stored as fat. These weight loss drugs worked to a degree (no pun intended) but were also quite dangerous. People taking this weight loss drug, DNP as it was called, sometimes developed fatally high fevers. Other times the extreme body heat caused injuries like blindness. The next development in weight loss drugs was amphetamines that I was speaking about earlier. This was a completely different idea of course, helping people lose weight by suppressing appetite. Unfortunately these weight loss drugs have their share of negative side effects, and occasionally can cause death by overdose. The newest weight loss drug isn't actually a drug at all, but an all natural supplement that can suppress appetite with no risks or side effects. If you haven't guessed it's [s]hoodia[s], the newest and greatest innovation in weight loss drugs.

It is impossible for all the sellers of Hoodia to be selling real Hoodia Gordonii. The plant grows extremely slowly, and takes usually about four or five years but even up to seven years for real Hoodia Gordonii to reach its peak for harvesting. It also will only grow properly in the deserts of South Africa, though efforts were made to grow Hoodia in the Southern United States and in Mexico the differences in soil and rainfall and other factors resulted in plants that were extremely low in the active ingredient, P-57. To add to the problems of the availability there is only one company in the world licensed to produce real Hoodia for weight loss purposes. Real Hoodia Gordonii is also listed as a protected species, adding to difficulties. When you are searching for your supplement or spray it is important to look for a CITES certificate, or inquire about it. This is the best way to ensure you are buying real Hoodia, it shows not only that the plant came from South Africa, but that it was grown and harvested legally in a farm rather than taken from the wild where it is protected.

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