Well I can tell you it works really well, that is the UK based product that I have used with obese friends.
As for it's safety, it's a little like Aloe Vera, used by many African tribes too. Try telling them, that it's dangerous. they will laugh at you, also they need it, thats their local pharmacy. The list of above uses will be real, just like many herbs.
The UK product contains an extract of Hoodia, that is the equivalent to 10,000mg of raw Hoodia powder, along with chromium, which is an excellent mineral for those who are hypoglycemic (sugar addiction) & a plant based hydrocytric acid which helps with the digestability of the product, I suspect.
Anyway I can promise you it's made by a very serious health company & has been made for a long time. The so called alternative end of the health market, is a very real alternative for sick people & it cures people.
So Unilever have got a very potent product, they don't really need to do bugger all, with it, but I guess they want to make a medicinal claim.
As for blocking obese people who are desperate for help from using an available product that does work. That I am afraid is plain wrong. I am sure in good old USA there are some con products, but is that not the norm for the US, the home of the McDonald burger.
I am for my sins an investor in PYM & if you read the Edison reports, the were expecting pretty much what we got earlier this month. Ther is another one written, but it's not freely available yet.
I am pretty sue this company is massively undervalued, for reasons largely beyonds it's control.
But I dislike the way they appear to be knocking the use of a herbal alternative & blocking sick people from using it. That I am afraid is what may be happenning. I hope not for that is ultimately rather immoral.
I think GW Pharm set a better eg, with their cannabis product were they are not getting on their high horse & lecturing sick people about using what is still in many place an illegal drug. Funny didn't they come from the PYM stable??