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5 Facts- The Hazards of Buying Counterfeit Hoodia Gordonii

By: James Comer

Question #1- Be Sure to ask yourself if the place that you are getting hoodia from allows ongoing, random, anonymous testing of all of their hoodia products. This should be from an independent lab.

Here is the reason why.

There are dishonest vendors who will display the lot numbers tested on their website from a lab considered to be very reputable. But, the only way to know that this constitutes irrefutable proof of their hoodia product's strength is if the company permits ongoing, anonymous, and random testing of the actual product that is sold to the consumer. This should be completely verifiable, and also the testing should be done where the vendor doesn't know the exact testing place, where the products are bought from nor when the product was purchased. The results from such testing should be displayed right on the testing laboratorie's websites.

Question # 2: PURITY- Is there an easy way to see if the product is made ONLY from 100% pure South African Hoodia gordonii-with no fillers or additives?

There is a way that you can determine the purity of the hoodia. On the label, look under the "Supplement Facts" section of the label. Does it declare explicitly that there are no additives? It does this by placing the word "None" in the "Other Ingredients" block. If there is anything else other than "None" in that space, it's not pure hoodia gordonii.

Sometimes a manufacturer will list the fillers and additives as "Other Ingredients". This is known as the "O.I." trick. If the manufacturer lists the other fillers and additives as "other ingredients"- then they can legally say that the product is true gordonii.

The government allows the diet supplement industry the use of "flow agents" to help simplify the process of manufacturing them.

Through the use of magnesium stereate, cellulose, silica, and other similar ingredients, the manufacturers are able to exploit the loophole in the law regarding "other ingredients"- at YOUR expense.

Through the use of the high compression encapsulation techniques on the market these days, it's not necessary for fillers and additives to be added- yet the "lesser" known companies continue to do this, and still be able to call it "pure". Do you want "cheap" lesser potency hoodia, or potent and effective hoodia that's "pure"?

Now you know how to avoid this common "bait and switch" practice that the less than honorable companies use when they give the lab a "souped up" supposedly authentic sample, yet sell you, the consumer, a watered down product.

Question #3: Is the hoddia that you are wanting to purchase claim to be Hoodia Gordonii of South African origin, or just plain "hoodia"? There are more than 20 varieties of Hoodia known to man, and the only one that has been proven to reduce calorie intake in humans is the South African hoodia. If you see "Chinese Hoodia" for example, you should consider it counterfeit.

Question #4: Which part of the hoodia plant is the product made from? It should be made from the biologically active part of the Hoodia gordonii Succulent. You'll also need to know if the vendor uses only the peeled stem of the Hoodia gordonii plant.

You shouldn't buy hoodia gordonii from any company using the "whole plant" or anything that isn't purely the "peeled stems. These products would automatically have atleast 50% less of the hoodia's active ingredients necessary for effective appetite control.

The active part of the plant is called P-57. This part- the peeled stem- is the part that you WANT- NOT the flowers, NOT the bark, NOT the root.

Question # 5: POTENCY - Am I sure the Hoodia I buy is of the highest potency possible. Does the company or its farmers patiently cultivate the Hoodia succulents for at least 3-1/2 years before harvesting the stems?

When you get hoodia milled from immature plants, it may test "positive" for Hoodia , but will have insufficient P57 to suppress your appetite. Hoodia loses it's strength when exposed to or dried in open sunlight, in kilns above a certain tempeature, or when milled above certain micron levels.

Article Source: http://www.lowcarbdietarticles.com

James Comer is a freelance writer about things that interest him on the web. Stop by Hoodoba Diet Pills to learn more about Hoodoba Diet Pills that meet the above requirements.
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