I was watching tv, and on came a trim spa commercial. the commercial blabbed on and on about the ingrediant, Hoodia Gordonii. So, onto Yahoo I went to look up this new miracle diet med! And what did I fing out? Well, The San Indians have been using Hoodia, which is out of some cactus., as the main sourse of their diet for something like 10,000 years. It provides food and water to these people. In the 1960s, I think it was the San tried feeding it to animals. ANimals that ate the hoodia lost weight. Then over the next few decades, the weight loss component was seperated out of the cactus. Apparently, it has some weird effect, that causes people that consume hoodia to consume 1000 less calories a day. If you are on a 2000 calorie diet, take the magical hoodia and you will only consume 1000 a day! Hmm, it sounds too good to be true. Everything on the hoodia seems to indicate that it is the "safe" diet pill; apparently, unlike ephedra, it doesnt speed up your heart rate (gotta love the racing heart!!!). I couldnt really find any other side effects from the hoodia. I am curious. Has anyone tried Trimspa? DOes it work as it claims to?!?!?! And does anyone have a hoodia cactus? eating cactus is quite tasty (I tried it in Texas and it tasted like watermelon rind). Hey, if I can lose weight by eating a cactus, i would do it!!!!!! Lets hear it for the hoodia!!