News on Hoodia Diet Pills Can Hoodia Gordonii help people to Lose Weight? Those of us at Hoodia-Secrets are always up to date with the information. One of the early studies of Hoodia Gordonii was completed in the UK on obese patients. half the patients took Hoodia, the other fifty percent were given a placebo. After only 15 days it was determined that those people taking Hoodia Gordonii had depleted their calorie intake by one thousand calories per day. Despite having unlimited supplies of food, the Hoodia Gordonii subjects were able to loose weight.