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My friend told me about herbalife I did some research how do I know
if its true with this search from http://www.naturalproductsmarketplace.com/hotnews/herbalife-tangles-with-prop-65–testing-compa.html
05/20/2008
Herbalife Tangles with Prop 65, Testing Company
Christopher Grell, co-founder of the Dietary Supplement Safety Committee and a lawyer specializing in dietary supplement litigation, conducted the literature reviews.
Prop. 65 sets the maximum daily exposure at 0.5 mcg/d for chemicals that are known to cause developmental problems, and 15 mcg/d for chemicals that are known to cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm. Lead is listed in both categories in California.
FDI reported the following levels: Herbalife’s Thermogetics, 0.663 mcg of lead per tablet, a total of 5.967 mcg/d if taken as recommended; and Herbalife’s Shape Works Cell Activator, 0.294 mcg of lead per capsule, a total of 2.637 mcg/d when taken as recommended.
Minkow, a pastor who served seven years in jail for fraud, now leads FDI, which devotes much of its Web site homepage to going after Herbalife. A document posted on FDI’s site shows the cost of lab services relative to the Herbalife lead investigation at around $5,820, far less than the $50,000 investment in HLF failure.
Minkow told INSIDER it was only when FDI expanded the scope of the investigation that it began shorting HLF stock. “Also, the recent Herbalife lab results cost $23,000, not only $5,000, because we did some potency tests as well,” he noted. “Finally, we are still very much in the hole with the Herbalife investigation because we hired three investigative firms in China and Hong Kong to collect usable evidence [on] Herbalife. … We are not profiting from Herbalife.”
A second FDA-registered lab released additional results May 21, showing the Herbalife products contain excessive levels of lead, relative to Prop. 65. Subsequently, FDI filed a formal complaint with the California Department of Public Health, Food & Drug Branch (FDB), asking state officials to demand Herbalife products be immediately labeled with lead warnings and removed from public consumption until such lead warnings are issued. The complaint was also sent to California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. as well as to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
myself- I think in this situation you have to follow your gut level feeling. I would say stay away from the company. If you want to move in a more natural direction ask Hashem to help you find a Natural Physician, who is knowledgeable about changing your eating habits, and incorporating Herbal and Vitamin Supplements….
Just follow the advice of the Rambam in Hilchos Deos. Don’t go back for doubles at the shmorg, don’t make too many l’chaims and don’t go back for more schmaltz herring. Eat healthy, excercise regularly and you won’t need “supplements”.
Whatch the trans fats at the shmorg. Remember the Rambam was a Physcian I think he was probably concerned about his patients eating too many rich foods. Alcoholic beverages (more alcoholic then wine) are very fattening.
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Please be very careful with practitioners as well – some of them really are MLM salespeople in disguise. Start by asking your own physician or a family friend who is a physician as to what, if anything, you need.
And don’t pay more than high end drugstore prices for any supplement (Landau’s was my upper limit when I lived in the US b/c I wanted the “haimishe hechsher” but ask your rov what hechsher is needed on any given supplement).
Stay away from diet sodas what an oxymoron water as a beverage is a more sensible choice. Let food be your medicine, start with a sensible diet supervised and monitored by a holistic physcian who was schooled in general as well as alternative medicine . Find a frum Rav who does not adhere to the standard Ashkenazim Diet (SAD), but is open to healthier eating choices. You can work as a team (Rav., Physician and yourself) to help create a healthier lifestyle.
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