Herbalife- The Panacea for all ills??

Hi
I don't think herbalife or for that matter any health dring can be a substitute to healthy three time meal that we have.
All this is just a marketing strategy on the part of the distributor to market his product and by saying it is made under the supervision of US nutritionists it is just a gimmmick on their part bcoz of their known knowledge that we Indians have a weakness for foreigh products and that we trust US nutritionists more than their Indian counterparts.
And by the time people realise that the product is a fake he already must have sold many bottles and recovered his profit.
There was a recent scandal in mumbai about a product called body revival and the whole scam was busted and the founder of the product is now missing.
He used to sell each vial for 15000 by saying that it cures cancer. A person with reasonable knowledge knows that there is no cure for cancwe but uneducated people bought the products by mortgaging their jewellery etc and now all are lodging a complaint againsthim. But he has already absconded

 

The product is not good. It will definitely have side effects on liver. My close friend who is a dietitian asked me to be away from it. It also might disturb your periods cycle and result in harmonal imbalance. Dont invite troubles while trying this product. Instead cut your portions and have lots of fluids. Exercise everyday and you will find the results.
Many such products try to cash in on the weakness of the consumers. Dont fall into the trap.

 

Hi Krsnapriya,

This product is a gimmick like many other products in the market. But it has been in India for a long time. I had it when I was in college (that was nearly 13 years ago). It came in a pack called Herbalife Combo with a protein drink (in various flavors) + a Multivitamin tablet bottle + a bottle of tablets that help reduce weight. When I started on it, I lost 4 kilos in 1 month but after that the effect wore out and then I gained 5 kilos in the next 2 months :rotfl. It did nothing to reduce my weight, finally I joined the gym and sweated it out and that is what made me reduce.

All I did was spend a lot of money on this drink (it was pretty expensive then, don't know the cost now). Research has shown that you can substitute one meal a day with a high protein shake and not more than that since very high protein diet can cause kidney damage, that is why even Atkins diet is becoming less popular nowadays.

Best would be to go for a balanced diet + exercise combination to loose weight. Don't fall for what these Herbalife salesmen say, they are pretty convincing in their talk and after a meeting with them, you will definitely feel like the product is magic to all our health problems :bowdown when actually it is not the right and healthy way to loose weight.