Eat All You Want and Still Lose Weight? This Time It Might Be True, According to Researchers.
NEW YORK -- The ads for Akavar[TM]-20/50 scream: "Eat All You Want and Still Lose Weight"O "Fat 'Cure' Revealed," and "Fastest, Easiest Weight Loss Ever." The garish orange and yellow ads are causing quite a stir, even though the diet pill won't be available at your local pharmacy until August 23, 2007. People seem to have very strong opinions about the 1980s-style look of the ad itself - some love it, others hate it, including Dr. Daniel Mowrey, Ph.D., who reviewed the substantiation for Dynakor Pharmacal[R], Akavar's exclusive distributor.
"Frankly I don't like the way the ad looks, either, and I certainly wouldn't be as flamboyant with the headlines," says Dr. Mowrey. "But forget about the way the ad looks. The real question is whether or not a diet pill can really let you eat all you want and still lose weight? In regards to Akavar-20/50, the facts are the facts and scientific documentation has confirmed that virtually everyone in the study who used Akavar's active compound -- 23 out of 24 participants, to be exact -- lost weight. That's the bottom line."
(To view the advertisement please visit www.dynakorpharmacal.com/akavar2050/images/vl_akavar_ad_2pg_5v4.pdf)
"As strong as the headlines are," says Stephen Nagin, Dynakor's General Counsel, "even the FTC has made exceptions for products that claim you can eat all the foods you love, and still lose weight (in other words, the pill does all the work)O as long as it's clear from the ad or commercial that people will not want to eat as much food as before they started using the product. Which is exactly what the Akavar-20/50 ads clearly implyO as long as you have the science to substantiate the claims."
According to Dr. Mowrey and Dynakor Pharmacal, the science is solid.
Dr. Mowrey explains: "In a double-blind, placebo controlled, randomized clinical trial, doctors tested a group of overweight individuals. And among those who took the active, patented Akavar-20/50 compound, every single participant lost a substantial amount of weightO except one. Further, the study suggested that the reason for the substantial weight loss was delayed gastric emptying, a physiological process that one would expect should reduce caloric intake. However, because the participants were specifically told not to change their normal dietary and exercise habits, I thought there had to be more to this compound than mere delayed gastric emptying alone. Therefore, I suggested a second clinical trial, which has yet to be published, to examine whether the Akavar compound could have altered levels of ghrelin, the hunger hormone. It did. So there are at least two possible explanations for Akavar's effectiveness: delayed gastric emptying and/or reduced ghrelin levels. We're not sure which mechanism is most effective or if Akavar works through a combination of the two. But we do know that 23 of the 24 study participants ate all they 'wanted' and still lost weight."
So how can consumers get this new "miracle" pill?
"Well, until our anticipated U.S. launch, the only way to get Akavar is directly from Dynakor Pharmacal (www.akavar2050.com or by calling 1-800-573-7408) but remember, until the August launch supplies will be very limited," explains Heather Hurst, spokesperson for Dynakor Pharmacal.
Anyway you look at it, a pill that automatically reduces caloric intake and lets you eat as much as you want and still lose weight is a dieter's dreamO if you can find a bottle.
