Why write a review of Hoodia Gordonii now?  It’s not new news, it’s been around a few years.  That statement is true, so is this one. I am sitting at my laptop writing this review between bites of my big Toblerone bar because I am past my weight issues and that is in some measure, thanks to Hoodia en, more specifically, the Desert Burn brand.

I don’t know how much weight I lost in total, because I didn’t do one of those motivational “lose weight now” programs with calorie-precise meals and shakes for breakfast, lunch and dessert.  I had my own motivation which came because of a “reborn” passion for motor sport, namely motorcycle racing.

Every ripple and curve of a lardy gut is ruthlessly exposed in a tight fitting one-piece leather race suit. The first time I went looking for a suit I was told that I would have to get a ridiculously expensive tailored suit because - surprise surprise – they didn’t have an off the peg in my size.

That was it for me. Down to the nearest gym.

I quickly started enjoying training in a gym, lucky me.  This was great.  I was losing a lot of weight, right up until I hit a barrier. I reached that last tire around my belly. It was like I had swallowed my bike’s rear tire. I was running for an hour and a half 4 times a week but that tire was just bouncing along with me.

It was diet. I couldn’t believe it was diet because I am a vegetarian and always have been. I lived on carbos:  Cheese, pasta, fries, bread and lots of sugar. My eating habits were out of control.  My taste buds were in control. The power of those little spots on my tongue was out of proportion to their size.

The hardest part of weight loss for me was knife and fork control.  I would run all day as long as I could have that chocolate muffin after.  It was hopeless.

This is where Hoodia came in.

I hate taking drugs of any kind.  My wife has had to resort to threats to get me to take a paracetamol, and it would have to be really bad before I would cave.

Then one day, my mother of all the people, called me because she’s heard about this cactus from South Africa that has been used by desert hunting tribes men, to keep hunger at bay on long hunts.

It took about a week before I noticed it working.  I was forgetting to eat!  I had to remind myself to eat. But I was able too eat smaller portions and felt full.

The best bit was that I could say no to chocolate, sweets pastries, bubble gum, pies, cakes, and on and on.  I even stopped taking sugar in my tea or coffee.

The rear tire gave up the fight.  I got my self down to 69 kilos my dream weight.

End of the war, I win.

After I stopped taking Hoodia, I was very much in control of the situation.  Hoodia taught me how to control my taste buds.  I can say no, if I notice I am putting on weight again. It has given me back a power of choice.

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Imagine if everyone had a natural tendency to exercise and eat healthy foods, and the less they paid attention to exercise and diet the more they exercised, and the healthier their diets got? I see no reason why this couldn’t be the case if our society were structured differently. What if you were given tax breaks for keeping your blood cholesterol in a healthy range. What if you were given some sort of bonus for eating all your fruits and vegetables in a given week. And what if there was some sort of health savings plan that rewarded you for every 30 minutes of exercise you did. This could get the whole population healthy in a hurry. It would seem that the only real way to get people to take action always come down to the bottom line, money.

This obviously isn’t the case so we need to deal with the society we are currently living in. And make no mistake; this society is not designed to help you out at all when it comes to getting in shape and staying in shape. Food marketing, food laws, a lack of financial interest in exercising, and the quickening pace of society make personal health and staying in shape one of the biggest challenges in anyone’s life. It really seems like all the cards are stacked against you. Think of how often you are tempted to indulge in unhealthy foods in a day, and how little you are tempted to eat right and workout.

The amount of marketing and misinformation that we are exposed to in a day make it next to impossible for most people to really understand what to eat. Even people trained in nutrition still need to learn more than a university degree has to offer before they can start making truly informed choices about what to eat.

For starters most people in North America are faced with hundreds of food marketing messages every day. We are also faced with an unlimited number of food choices, most of which are not what I would consider healthy. The situation doesn’t get any better when you look to the government for help. Most government regulated health claims, and labeling claims are heavily lobbied for, and do more to confuse the end consumer than educate them.

So as far as food goes, you’re basically left on your own to figure out what you should and shouldn’t eat. To make a truly informed decision about food you would need to be educated in all of the following fields, basic nutrition, food processing, food marketing, food manufacturing, and the worst of all, government regulation of food. This is an impossible task for most, leaving you at the mercy of those who control each of these industries.

So where do you turn to for advice about what to eat? Certainly not the food industry, as their main goal is profit, not your health. The government? Nope, their hopelessly being lobbied and persuaded by industry to keep the profit mill churning along. At best you will get a cryptic message that never takes a stand one way or the other and ends up leaving the decision making and responsibility for your health squarely on your shoulders. All the while allowing the food industry to poke at you, and tease you and persuade you as much as possible to eat more of their greatest new products.

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This is a bit of an update on innovations in technology and the new Hydrogen Cars which are being produced.  This is part of the push to use clean energy and alternative fuels.  I always appreciate seeing people working so hard to make it possible us to live on a cleaner planet.

The more we support these programs, the better chance we have of doing something about Global Warming, environmental issues, and even the current high gas prices.

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This blog discusses the new methods of saving gasoline while driving, in order to squeeze out the maximum miles per gallon (and help save money as well as the environment).  This set of techniques is referred to as “hypermiling.”

Please stop by our Hypermiling blog and see what you can learn.  And please leave a comment on what you think.

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