California Obesity Epidemic

California is facing an obesity epidemic with over 57 percent of Californians overweight. The second highest cause of death and disability, poor diet and lack of exercise lead to over 30,000 deaths a year.

As if the deaths were not terrible enough, the lving obese have to deal with obese realted conditions such as ,heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, arthritis-related disabilities, sleep disorders, cancers of the breast, prostate, and colon, depression, and other mental health problems.

California Facts and Figures

As of 2006, California has an estimated population of 36,457,549, and is the 13th fastest-growing state. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 1,909,368 people (that is 3,375,297 births minus 1,465,929 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 774,198 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 1,724,790 people, and migration within the country produced a net decrease of 950,592.

California has eight of the top 50 US cities in terms of population. Los Angeles is the nation's second-largest city with a population of 3,845,541 people, followed by San Diego (8th), San Jose (10th), San Francisco (14th), Long Beach (34th), Fresno (37th), Sacramento (38th) and Oakland (44th).

What is Hoodia Gordonii, How Hoodia Works ...

Grown mainly in the Kalahari Desert region of South Africa, Hoodia Gordonii is an all-natural appetite suppressant, derived from a cactus-like plant with prickly spikes. Scientists have been researching the Hoodia Gordonii plant for almost a decade, and have found it to be completely free of harmful side effects.

The way Hoodia works is simple, a previously unknown molecule, dubbed P57 by Britain's leading pharmaceutical researcher, imitates the effect glucose has on nerve cells in the brain, specifically the Hypothalmus.

What it does simply, is to fool the brain into thinking it's full when it's not. Results of British clinical trials into Hoodia show a reduction in appetite of up to 2000 calories a day.