Herbalife Diet

leafy

Hi. Ive recenlty started using Herbalife products for a much healthier breakfast (compared to the lack of what i was already having) and my mums started using their stuff for weight loss. their diet is basically a replacement of two meals with a milkshake that they supply and the powder is soy protein based so you dnt get hungry. its actually really good. just thought i would let ppl know about something different if they were looking to lose weight. it does work as shes lost weight and is happy with the amount so far.
they have protein bars for snacks and soups as snacks and they have express bars if you dnt feel like the shake. I only use it as a basic wellness thing but its really effective it fills me up!

adamantine

ive been using this stuff since jan. i lost 17lbs in 12 weeks and dropped 3 points on my bmi. ive stopped using it for a while but i really need to start using it again coz im putting some back on.

my mum is a distributor and has suggested using hot milk for the shakes as something different. will be good on a winter morning.

rachyc_2

I am a distributor for Herbalife. I have never been in sales before as I didn't believe I had the confidence to sell to people I didn't know. I can sell Herbalife as it is a product that I totally believe in! I have used the products twice now to lose my baby weight after my two children and it has worked flawlessly!x

Toomuchdebt

I tried it and thought it was disgusting.Give me Cambridge diet any day

murphydog999

Ooh yummy, according to the ingredients of their vanilla flavoured shake - found here http://bloghealthydiet.com/herbalife-ingredients/ - first is isolated soy protein - see below - a highly heat processed soy by-product, and 2nd, fructose, or to put it another way, sugar. Combined with artificial flavourings and additives, 57 ingredients in total. That is one healthy way to loose weight!

According to lipid specialist and nutritionist Mary Enig, PhD, “The reason
"The soy industry started to plant soy to extract the oil from it and soy oil became a very large industry.” There was a lot of soy oil and with it came a lot of soy protein residue as a left over by-product, and since they couldn’t feed it to the animals, except in small amounts, they had to find another big market, which, of course, was human consumption.
This excess soy production and its protein residue was the motivation for the multi-million dollars spent on advertising and intense lobbying of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which resulted in about 74 percent of U.S. consumers believing that soy products are healthy.
Soy belongs to the family of legumes. Other members of the legume family include beans - such as adzuki, red kidney, navy, barlotti, etc., as well as chickpeas. Peanuts are included as well, as they are technically not a nut but a legume. All legumes and wholegrains - such as, rice, barley, oats, wheat and rye - contain amounts of phytic acid. Being a legume, soy contains a high amount of phytic acid. So, what’s wrong with phytic acid? A number of things – yet, in some cases, phytic acid can also be beneficial.

Phytic acid’s structure gives it the ability to bind minerals, proteins and starch, and results in lower absorption of these substances. Hence, phytic acid, in large amounts, can block the uptake of essential minerals, like calcium, magnesium, copper, iron - and especially zinc - in the intestinal tract. Soy also inhibits the uptake of one of the most important minerals needed for growth and metabolism, iodine, which is used by the thyroid gland in the production of thyroid hormones.
However, for non-vegetarian men, phytic acid may prove to be quite helpful, due to its binding/chelating ability with minerals. Since a large percentage of non-vegetarian adult males have excess iron, phytic acid would be helpful to them by binding the excess iron. But we need to bear in mind phytic acid will simultaneously bind other minerals, such as calcium, magnesium and zinc. In the case of children and menstruating women, the phytic acid in soy can be a serious negative, as women and children need iron. In women, iron is needed to replace the loss during their menses and in children iron is required for growth and development.
Apart from the phytic acid-related phenomena, there are additional factors that make soy an unhealthy choice.

Soy:
• contributes to thyroid disorder, especially in women
• promotes kidney stones
• weakens the immune system
• contributes to food allergies and digestive intolerances

Perhaps the most disturbing of soy’s ill effects on health has to do with its phytoestrogens, which can mimic the effects of the female hormone, oestrogen. These phytoestrogens have been found to have adverse effects on various human tissues - and drinking only two glasses of soy milk daily for one month has enough of the chemical to alter a woman’s menstrual cycle.

In reality, the research that has concluded that all soy products are healthy is far from accurate - and very much skewed by economic motives.