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When surfing the Internet for hoodia gordonii, you may have read there is a hoodia Oprah connection. You may have seen websites that claim Oprah uses hoodia, or that she has endorsed a particular hoodia product on her show. Would it surprise you to hear that these statements may not be true? I have not been able to prove there is a hoodia Oprah connection. I have been to Oprah's website and searched for "hoodia Oprah", as well as just plain "hoodia," and no results were found for either. I have never read anything that proves Oprah has used hoodia, or that she has featured it on her show. Until I find evidence that tells me different, I don't believe that there is a hoodia Oprah connection. I will say there is a minor connection to hoodia in Oprah's magazine, O. The websites that claim Oprah uses hoodia point to an article, "Diet Pills: The Next Generation," that ran in O's July 2005 issue. The magazine was hard to locate, but I managed to find one on eBay and purchased it. I wanted to find out exactly what Oprah said about hoodia. The article was very surprising. The article features a picture of a San tribe member with a hoodia gordonii plant. My first thought was there probably is a hoodia Oprah, but after reading the article it was not connected to Oprah at all. In fact, the article was written by someone other than Oprah and there are no quotes from Oprah about hoodia in the entire piece. The first two paragraphs of the article discussed the history of the plant and its popularity in the weight loss industry. Yet, the article in O didn't speak very favorably of hoodia weight loss supplements and said, "So far, however, there's little proof that the supplements are even mildly effective: Most contain only small, probably insignificant levels of Hoodia extract" If anything, if I didn't know better, this article would make me doubt the benefits of hoodia gordonii supplements, though no brand was mentioned. The remaining text of the piece talks about the race between pharmaceutical firms to discover the latest miracle weight loss supplement. There is no mention of hoodia gordonii past the first two paragraphs. As you can see, the magazine does not mention a hoodia Oprah connection, or endorse that Oprah uses the weight loss supplement herself. What I'm surprised is that Oprah's legal department hasn't come down hard on these websites that use her name and her magazine as an endorsement for hoodia. Often times these websites twist the magazine article so far that they make it sound like Oprah herself endorsed their brand of hoodia in her magazine. The next time you see claims that Oprah endorses hoodia or that there is some kind of hoodia Oprah connection, you'll know the truth.
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