Media Coverage

Major media coverage of Hoodia

Major news organizations such as ABC News, CBS News, CNN, MSNBC (The Today Show), National Geographic, The New York Times and Oprah’s O Magazine have all covered Hoodia because of Hoodia’s promising results.

What the media are saying

	ABC News Can an African cactus actually help you lose weight? "Clinical trials for hoodia have just begun in the U.S. and won't be completed for years, but there has been testing done overseas and those tests found people cut their calories by half." – ABC Action News (Jan. 13, 2005) Click here for complete story
	BBC News Sampling the Kalahari cactus diet "All the volunteers could do all day was read papers, watch television, and eat. Half were given Hoodia, half placebo. Fifteen days later, the Hoodia group had reduced their calorie intake by 1000 a day. It was a stunning success." – Tom Mangold (May 30, 2003) Click here for complete story
	CBS News African Plant May Help Fight Fat "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.” 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.” – Lesley Stahl (Nov. 21, 2004) Click here for complete story
	National Geographic Africa's Bushmen May Get Rich From Diet-Drug Secret " A deal has been signed between the South African San Council and the country's Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR), which identified the appetite-suppressing ingredient in Hoodia during research into indigenous plants in 1996.” – Leon Marshall (Apr. 16, 2003) Click here for complete story
	Oprah's "O" Magazine "Deep in the heart of South Africa’s Kalahari Desert may lay the secret to weight loss.”
	The Today Show (MSNBC) Prickly bush in the Kalahari Desert could be key to weight-loss success "Eat it and you won't want to eat anything else — a secret bushmen have known for ages and a mystery to the West no more." - Janet Shamlian, (Oct. 24, 2005) Click here for complete story