It's taken years for overweight Americans to discover what the South African bush people knew innately -- or so the story goes. For eons, the bush people have nibbled a native succulent plant called ...

The story goes that, when the San tribe of southern Africa felt hungry but had no food around, they would chew on a plant called the hoodia gordonii. A few mouthfuls of this bitter-tasting succulent ...

MARIENTAL, NAMIBIA — When fully grown, the plant resembles something from “The Day of the Triffids” or some other science-fiction creation: a squat succulent with thick, spiky arms, purple fleshy ...

BEGINNING IN the 1960s, the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) screened more than 1,000 native plants as sources of foods or drugs. This process eventually led to ...

Losing weight is great, but jeesh ... such effort. If struggle isn’t your thing, you might be tempted to ditch that treadmill and hop aboard the latest diet-fad bandwagon — the ice cube diet. And yes, ...

At the beginning of December 2010, newspapers in South Africa announced a new development in the Hoodia slimming pill saga. According to Tamar Kahn writing in Business Day, Phytopharm, the UK company ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: I’ve seen a lot of Internet ads for Hoodia, a natural supplement that suppresses your appetite. What do you know about it? Does it work, and is it safe? A ...

To lose weight, Alicia Puma drops a Hoodia-filled ice cube in her water. Or she eats one straight. In a world of easy diets, it's just about the easiest. You don't even have to freeze them; they come ...