Vitamin syrup replaces 'fowl pill' - Women using new method to get curvy bodies

With summer just around the corner, some women who want curvy figures to flaunt in bikinis have been flocking stores that sell Apetamin vitamin syrup.

The sale of the syrup has increased even more because some stores that sell the product in Jamaica are promising that women will become thick and curvy if they use the liquid.

Apetamin seems like quite the replacement for chicken (fowl) pills that many women used to ingest to get bigger thighs and butts. It is said that farmers would give these same pills to chickens so that they would grow faster.

One woman, Kadian Tucker, said that she has been using the Apetamin vitamin syrup for almost one month after being introduced to it by a friend. And since then, she said that she has been feeling more confident and she believes that her body has gotten thicker.

"Mi can see the improvements cause mi have meal plan weh mi follow wid it too, and based pon how mi want mi body look, mi can see it a reach to dah point deh," she said.

"One time mi couldn't wear certain revealing or tight clothes, but now mi can wear dem and nuh feel no way," Tucker added.

Meanwhile, Leighton Brown, whose company Hi5 Beauty Shops stocks the hard-to-source items, admitted that there has been an increase in the sale of Apetamin.

At $8,000 per bottle, he said that his company sells about five bottles per week on average.

"Before, it was order on demand. If someone needed a few, we ordered for them. But in recent times, we have been keeping a few quantities on hand," he said, explaining that some persons have seen result in seven to 12 days after using only one bottle.

According to Brown, persons who are very small in body, between 18 to 35 years old and weighing between 100 and 150 pounds, are the ones who purchase Apetamin the most.

WEIGHT GAIN

He said that most persons who use it have reported that they have seen the weight gain and these persons admit that it truly works. However, he said that he does not know whether the user will get the sexy physique that is desired.

"This is generally for weight gain because it doesn't specifically target any part in the body in terms of where you will put on weight. It is not so much for curves," he said.

But nutrition adviser Vania Richards noted that misuse or over using Apetamin can lead to symptoms such as constipation, vomiting and sleepiness.

According to Richards, Apetamin is a vitamin used for weight gain for patients who have low or no appetite and are underweight.

"Weight gain is now a very popular thing. Persons are interested in how they appear and not how healthy their body actually is," Richards told THE WEEKEND STAR.

She noted that persons have also turned to other potentially dangerous methods to gain weight, such as taking birth control pills, allergy medicine, blood pressure tablets, antihistamine, and insulin.