DOES HOODIA REALLY WORK?
By Vince Delmonte
If you are anxious to get fat loss going, you've likely looked into the diet
supplement, hoodia. Hoodia gordonii is a plant
that was used in South African many years ago by hunters who would need to go for long durations of time without
food. It grows very slowly in harsh conditions, and needs to be harvested for four to five
years, before it's ready.
But how well does Hoodia really work for fat loss? Many people turn to
hoodia thinking it is the answer to all their prayers. Never hungry? Sounds like a dietary dream.
After all, following a diet should be easy if you never have any feelings of hunger, shouldn't
it?
Unfortunately,
it isn't so simple.
If you are a trying to get
a lean midsection, not eating is the last thing you want to be doing. Sure, you definitely
will need to eat less in order to lose body fat, but if you
aren't eating enough, you'll actually just lose muscle rather than body fat.
Since muscle
tissue is your calorie burning engine, destroying it would be counterproductive to getting the results you want.
Who wants a slower
metabolism at the end of the day? That'll just make further fat loss next to
impossible.
If hoodia is affecting your natural hunger signals, it will
be hard to get in the foods that you do
need - the foods that will work with your body to lose the body fat while still keeping
muscle tissue intact.
Secondly, you must understand that hoodia is not a thoroughly tested product and
cannot be deemed safe. If you take
enough of it, it can actually damage your metabolism,
causing a variety of thyroid issues that will be stuck with you into the future. While fat
loss and getting abs is important, you must do it a healthy way so that you don't do anything disrupting to your
health.
Finally, hoodia diet pills are by no means a proper method to losing abdominal
fat. In order to lose abdominal fat, you're going to have to find a method that will be sustainable over the long term. If
you think that you're just going to skip eating for the
years to come, you are very mistaken. You
will not get the proper nutrients you need to sustain life, therefore, to put it bluntly, using hoodia as a means
to help you maintain fat loss could very well put you in the hospital with severe malnutrition.
What you need is a diet that supplies all the nutrients you need,
while still being
effective with stomach fat
loss. Then, you'll also need to make sure thisdiet is something you can work into your lifestyle so that your
abs aren't going to be just covered up by more body
fat again once you move off the diet.
The more time you waste chasing after gimmicky supplements that only hurt you in
the long run, the more time you spend without the results you are after. For really good advice on how to lose fat
the right way click on No Nonsense Musclebuilding by
Vince Delmonte.
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