My extensive investigation into Hoodia diet pills and Hoodia liquids with obese and overweight patients has led me to form a definitive opinion about Hoodia in general and about the notable effectiveness of one brand in particular. In all, I have tested 35 different Hoodia products. Of the 35 ONLY HOODOBA proved worthy of my commendation. Why

Professor P. Ivanov,MD
NewLife Health Institute

Hoodia gordonii & the San People of South Africa

Who are the San, where are they from?:
The San are universally acknowledged to be the first people of South Africa. Their hunter-gatherer society stretches back over 27,000 years - and their genetic origins - to over one million years. It is believed the San represents the oldest genetic stock of contemporary humanity. Ten thousand years ago their vast terrain went from the Zambezi to the Cape of Good Hope, to the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans.

Once widespread and plentiful in numbers, 300 years ago European colonist took away their lands and virtually wiped them out. The San people now number a mere 110,000 living in poverty on the outer fringes of society. Facing cultural extinction, they now struggle to win back a foothold in the lands they once exclusively owned, and freely roamed.

Our Contribution
Thanks to their priceless insight, we are able to benefit from their knowledge and discovery of this most valuable plant. Now we can use it help the overweight population of the world.

To this end we've ensured that as owners of the traditional rights to the Hoodia plant, they the San People (represented by *SAHG), receive a guaranteed 6% profit from the proceeds of every Hoodia purchase we make. Click here to read more about SAHG, our membership, and our contributions to the San People of South Africa.

Their Legacy
The San believe in two gods - one associated with life and the rising sun in the east, and another with death and the setting sun in the west. The belief was also held among the different clans that at some "early time", people and animals were indistinguishable from each other, and that it was only after a "second creation" that people acquired the human traits and qualities we have today.

A common practice among the clans is that of the trance dance. This provided the means by which shamans and healers crossed over into parallel worlds in order to heal the sick. Knowledge of these religious beliefs and the role of the trance dance are important in understanding the San rock art and paintings you see across South Africa today.

The arts and their interpreters are dying out, but contrary to earlier Western notions that were simple naïve art, the rock paintings of the San are now believed to have been representations of spiritual and cosmological phenomenon and occurrences.

South Africa's Bongani Mountain remains rich in San rock art noted for their revelations and uniqueness by scholars in the field.

Visits and Expeditions
Guests on CC Africa Expedition to the Central Kalahari also have the opportunity to experience the art of tracking with a San guide. Aside from their rock art, engravings and isolated remnant settlements, the legacy of the San and acknowledgement of their place in the region's history, is enshrined in the motto on the South African National Coat of Arms, !ke e: /xarra //ke, which in the /Xam language means "diverse people unite".