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Davie_GLA said:
And no, not bought in little sweet smelling bundles. The healthy kind.
I've got a couple of pals touting this as the best weight loss thing ever with added 'optimal nutrition'
Is this just another scheme or a genuine method to general better living?
The latter. I've met quite a few people who's life it changed dramatically. I could actually put you in touch with someone if you wanted to find out more.I've got a couple of pals touting this as the best weight loss thing ever with added 'optimal nutrition'
Is this just another scheme or a genuine method to general better living?
Davie_GLA said:
Cost wise it works out about £150 for the most expensive 'package' per month. That's a lot.
The theory is that it doesn't cost you anything. You spend that instead of spending day to day on meals.I'm sure plenty can come on and rubbish it. I'm also sure you could work out a diet plan that's cheaper. I'll repeat though - I've seen this work for several people. Was speaking to a guy the other day who is no longer suffering from Diabetes as a result. Sticking to it makes the weight come right off people and they seem to be bursting with energy.
(no I do not sell it or have shares in it etc).
Davie_GLA said:
Wikipedia page isn't encouraging is it...
$3bn business last year though. Wonder what the deal is...
Sounds like the deal is somewhere between Philip Morris and Bernie Madoff. No mention of prices, special distributors etc $3bn business last year though. Wonder what the deal is...
Far better to spend the money on some genuinely healthy food than be roped into buying quick-fix slop. I wonder how many people slide back to how they were once they get tired of shelling out (because they never bothered to fix the fundamental issues)?
I went to a Herbalife full-day seminar for new distributors. There were a couple of other PT's there. Suffice to say, they left after the first hour...
In a nutshell, Herbalife is for people who are too stupid to feed themselves properly. So as far as the general populace is concerned, it's a winning forumla.
There is absolutely nothing you can't do with a normal diet that you can do with Herbalife.
It's touted as a wonder means to cure obesity, but really it's allowing stupid people the ability to continue doing what they enjoy doing best - not thinking. Sadly, this includes the distributors.
What concerned me was that the people selling/distributing it are not qualified nutritionists, yet talk as if they are. Some of the things they were saying were alarmingly libellous. Such as - always say drink more water. If your client is getting headaches, tell them to drink even more water. WTF?!?! No advice on what a max consumption may be. I had to point out the basics of what water intoxification is! At which point I was even challenged that there was no such thing! Yikes.
There is also some odd matra that you have to use the product in order to sell it. This was pushed on me like somesort of Star Trek alien brainwashing plot. Despite me being very fit, athletic and muscular - I wouldn't quite say ripped, but not far from it - they all seemed insisted that I should be using the product, despite it being blatently obivous I didn't need to. :s
The main Forumla product is for fat, unfit, desperate people, looking to *approach* a normal size (although in my world, still be easily and officially classed as unfit and overweight, 25-30 BMI range). You will only get fat loss, not muscle or fitness gain and they do not promote or advise on exercise (yet all seem brainwashed to think that because they are not obese any more, they are fit - scarey)
What was also disconcerting was the misguided overconfidence of some of the distributors. One claiming to me that they could pass a nutritional course. So I asked what the difference is between a disaccharide and polysaccharide is. I was met by silence. Or, why over the years, have crisps tended to move up the glycemic index. Silence again. Basic stuff, people. My left b
k would have more chance of passing a nutritional course than this lot.
Suffice to say, being that I hate cowboys, I left feeling like I should be doing my utmost to expose them to trading standards or some internal health investigation. They are an accident waiting to happen.
Nutritional products should only be sold by duely qualified people.
In a nutshell, Herbalife is for people who are too stupid to feed themselves properly. So as far as the general populace is concerned, it's a winning forumla.
There is absolutely nothing you can't do with a normal diet that you can do with Herbalife.
It's touted as a wonder means to cure obesity, but really it's allowing stupid people the ability to continue doing what they enjoy doing best - not thinking. Sadly, this includes the distributors.
What concerned me was that the people selling/distributing it are not qualified nutritionists, yet talk as if they are. Some of the things they were saying were alarmingly libellous. Such as - always say drink more water. If your client is getting headaches, tell them to drink even more water. WTF?!?! No advice on what a max consumption may be. I had to point out the basics of what water intoxification is! At which point I was even challenged that there was no such thing! Yikes.
There is also some odd matra that you have to use the product in order to sell it. This was pushed on me like somesort of Star Trek alien brainwashing plot. Despite me being very fit, athletic and muscular - I wouldn't quite say ripped, but not far from it - they all seemed insisted that I should be using the product, despite it being blatently obivous I didn't need to. :s
The main Forumla product is for fat, unfit, desperate people, looking to *approach* a normal size (although in my world, still be easily and officially classed as unfit and overweight, 25-30 BMI range). You will only get fat loss, not muscle or fitness gain and they do not promote or advise on exercise (yet all seem brainwashed to think that because they are not obese any more, they are fit - scarey)
What was also disconcerting was the misguided overconfidence of some of the distributors. One claiming to me that they could pass a nutritional course. So I asked what the difference is between a disaccharide and polysaccharide is. I was met by silence. Or, why over the years, have crisps tended to move up the glycemic index. Silence again. Basic stuff, people. My left b
k would have more chance of passing a nutritional course than this lot.Suffice to say, being that I hate cowboys, I left feeling like I should be doing my utmost to expose them to trading standards or some internal health investigation. They are an accident waiting to happen.
Nutritional products should only be sold by duely qualified people.
tbh, no I wasn't I was going to take as much video evidence as possible to expose them, but in the fact of an 8 hour presentation and tha amount of evidence I'd have to collect and edit, I kinda remembered the beauty of natural selection...
Their whole selling point is based around blood sugar highs and lows of a monosaccharide-based/high glycemic start to the day, and how this can lead to snacking on high glycemic foods. And seem to think that ALL fat people are fat because they snack... that fat = unfit and thin = fit.
Retards.
Who should I get them investigated by? Food Standards Agency? But the "food" is ok. Trading Standards? No doubt none will take an interest until someone dies.
Their whole selling point is based around blood sugar highs and lows of a monosaccharide-based/high glycemic start to the day, and how this can lead to snacking on high glycemic foods. And seem to think that ALL fat people are fat because they snack... that fat = unfit and thin = fit.
Retards.
Who should I get them investigated by? Food Standards Agency? But the "food" is ok. Trading Standards? No doubt none will take an interest until someone dies.
BoRED S2upid said:
There's a lot of money to be made from stupid, lazy people.
EFA.If you can sell anyone anything that helps them get what they think they need without having to work for it, then you will be rich whether it's losing weight, quitting smoking, making Big Bucks (there's a tip there for horse racing fans).
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