There are many strategies to reduce hunger: getting plenty of fiber, regularly dinking of large amounts of water, avoiding refined carbohydrates in your diet. But a fact is that nothing can absolutely eliminate a hunger. Bottom line is that if you're working on weight loss than you probably will feel hunger from time to time and it will be harder if you use exercise and training.

But, Hey, you do not have to be afraid of hunger - its normal body response to a decrease in consumption of calories - It's just signal that a body doesn't have enough calories to add new fat to the fat reserves it's already carrying around.

There are two main ways to suppress an appetite:

• Natural way - foods and beverages that makes stomach to feel it's full of calorie-rich foods when in reality it's not.
• Weight loss dietary supplements - various Medications and Diet pills.

Now let's see how exactly can we manage or control our appetite.

Natural way   (Appetite control food)

 #1 - Large amounts of Fresh drinking water. Yes, cold water is really effective lowest calorie natural appetite suppressant and that's proven fact. Don't believe? Try it.

 #2 - Apples are great appetite suppressing foods too.  The bulky fiber fills up stomach and turns off your appetite control hormones before you overeat.  Apples contain various phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals and they are even a decent source of folic acid. To suppress an appetite eat largest apple you can find. Thus, you'll get some calories and some carbs too but the apple will fill you up for quite a while, and thus avoid from you eating far more calorie-dense foods.

 #3 - Green leafy vegetables like cabbage, lettuce, and bokchoy. All they have very low calorie density. You can eat as much vegetables as you like - their calorie intake easily can be ignored. You can eat them as row, boiled or even stir frayed with anions, garlic or spoon of souse. Big plate of vegetables could be no more than 100 calories and even with souse they calorie intake will be no more than 200-300 calories in total.

 #4 - Various kinds of puddings mostly based on unsweetened your favorite flavor simply natural spirutein - soy protein powder, with guar and xanthan gum powder. The shake tastes great and fills you up fast, has near-zero carbs, no sugars and is high in soy protein.

 #5 - The last one is - Pickles. It's unbelievable but Pickles without sugar or other high calorie ingredients are wonderful appetite suppressants. So when you go to your local food store to buy Pickles don't buy those yellowish colored, full of sugar and chemicals jar, peek one that doesn't have any of this ingredients. Eating of Pickles is an excellent time to take some calcium and mineral supplements because the acidity of the pickles accelerates the absorption of calcium.

Weight loss dietary supplements

For all those who already tried diet programs with little or no success at all, Weight loss dietary supplements can be taken in consideration. They usually offer simple remedy for fast weight loss. 

Major problem with Weight loss dietary supplements is safety and efficacy of the products - when right product is found thoroughly has to be checked if it fits to the needs of individual's weight loss goals.

Findings of research regarding weight loss dietary supplements safety and effectiveness could be amazing:

Large number of diet pills and Weight loss dietary supplements are not only in effective but they can cause to serious side effects and put diet consumers health in danger.

However, Research results indicate that there are some diet pills that deliver whole the package: They are safe and proved themselves as effective for achieving weight loss goal.

Detailed information regarding to our research results are as follows:

Ephedra

Ephedra (also known as Ma huang, Chinese Ephedra and epitonin) is the worlds oldest medicine. It was discovered by the Chinese more than 5000 years ago. Ephedra has been widely researched for its thermogenic (fat burning) properties. 

Research has show that  Ephedra helps promote weight loss and fat burning. Because of that Ephedra is main ingredient of many modern weight loss dietary supplements. In combination with caffeine, it may also jolt the muscles enough to enhance athletic performance for brief spurts. 

As Ephedra is a stimulant and a thermogenic properties and it should NOT be used in situations where these properties might

be harmful - Ephedra can over stimulate the nervous system, and may produce potentially fatal consequences. There are some simple rules about usage of Ephedra:

• Avoid use of Ephedra if you have any medical problems as the use of a stimulant might overtax your system. 
• Avoid use of Ephedra if your activity (environment) will prevent you from dissipating heat - Body core temperature might exceed safe levels.
• And Do Not take more than the manufacturer's recommended amount.

Lately was registered following side effects associated with Ephedra usage: increased blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, anxiety, uterine contractions, glaucoma, psychosis, hyperthyroidism, prostate enlargement, insomnia, depression and even death.

December 30, 2003, was the day when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned Ephedra from the marketplace due to concern the public health. They published Regulation, Prohibiting Sale of Ephedra-Containing Dietary Supplements and Advised Consumers to Stop Using These Products.

Hoodia

Hoodia is new widely promoted weight loss dietary supplement.  It become to a very popular choice for dieting consumers. But there is well known safety and lack of medical research problem with this popular product.

Hoodia  plant is a genus of 13 species in the flowering plant family Apocynaceae. Because of their remarkable similarity to the unrelated cactus family they are described as "cactuform". Many Hoodia species are protected plants, typical of the Namib Desert, ranging from Central Namibia to southern Angola , especially in plains and rocky areas, It commonly grows wild in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Native population of this area "Bushmen" usually is using Hoodia in their food preparation.

It's interesting that when eaten, Hoodia has no bitter taste

and does not cause any traditional appetite side effects               Photo of Martin Heigan

such as racing heart or central nervous system stimulation.  Upon discovering The Hoodia plan, Phytopharm , reportedly spend

more than $20million in research and isolation of the component which suppresses appetite. With research ongoing Phytopharm teamed up with Pfizer into continue conducting research to design a weight loss drug for potential FDA approval.

Unfortunately, after many studies and research, Pfizer withdrawed from the program because of the inability to create a pill with an active form of P57 as active ingredient. Preparation of P57 by synthetic way is very difficult and Hoodia plants are protected too, so availability of P57 in weight loss dietary supplements is rare or even absent.

However, today many companies are marketing labeled Hoodia weight loss supplements.
Important note is that these supplements or do not contain P57 and, if present, they may not be in the active form which is required to obtain the weight loss results. Meantime, Phytopharm has continued research of P57 molecule and plan to release meal-replacement products to the market in 2008.