When the Bushmen learned that Phytopharm was conveniently positioned to become billions of dollars richer from their knowledge of the diet pills, they were not exactly thrilled. But thanks to Roger Chennells(a lawyer in South Africa), applied speedy legal, political, and moral pressure on CSIR(Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and Phytopharm. Mr. Chennells succeeded to force CSIR and Phytopharm to pay the Bushmen a share of financial compensation through the commercial sale of the incredible diet pills to the general public. Furthermore, thanks to the Bushmen's successful court case, diet pills is now legally harvested in the Kalahari desert, and the Bushmen receives fair compensation; this ensures that the diet pills with hoodia available for the public is authentic. and you know this because ... Clinical trials were conducted in the UK to scientifically test the anecdotal evidence from the San tribes people. The test consisted of putting a group of morbidly obese volunteers in to a "phase 1 unit" - A closed-off area where all they could do was to read, watch television, and ... eat! Half the volunteers were given the diet pills with Hoodia Gordonii, half were given a placebo. After fifteen days, the group of volunteers who had been given the best diet pills had reduced their intake of food by 1000 calories a day - and remember, that was despite taking no exercise and having no restrictions on what they could eat.