Metabolife releases diet aid to help keep the weight off

NEW YORK Metabolife last week launched part two of a two-stage weight loss program called Break Through, a dietary supplement designed to help people who’ve lost the weight keep it lost.

“Eons before we had artificial shelter and heating and cooling environments, our bodies were built to survive a naturally harsh environment and scarcity of food due to seasonal changes and nomadic moves from one place to another,” stated Greg Grochoski, Metabolife chief science officer. “Even today, an initial weight loss signals the body to go into a conservation mode as it biologically expects winter or a move to a scarce food area.  We are built to conserve fat to protect the internal organs until spring arrives or the situation changes. This ‘rebound’ is therefore a natural reaction, but a problem in today’s world, when we lose weight for different reasons. We found that we can keep thermogenesis (an aspect of metabolism) at a higher, stabilized and healthy rate for a full eight weeks which can help the body continue to slough off excess fat.”

“In our clinical trials at the University of Copenhagen, we started with a group of 80 obese individuals who lost a significant amount of weight on a hypocaloric diet,” a doctor who led the study, Soren Toubro, said.  “The effect of adding our compound was a sustained increase in thermogenesis for eight weeks combined with an improved reduction in fat mass. The results of the double blind study are exciting because we were able to maintain the metabolic increase from week one to week eight.”

Break Through conains a patent-pending combination of key nutrients such as green tea, caffeine, cayenne and the amino acid L-Tyrosine, the company reported. Suggested retail price is $29.99.