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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.veg,net.cooks,net.misc
Subject: Re: Herbalife:Lose weight now, ask me how!
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 14:10:53 EDT
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In article <1114@ihuxb.UUCP> mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) writes:
>A friend of mine has jumped on the Herbalife bandwagon, using and selling
>these herb-based products.
		...
>Anyhow, does anyone out there in netland know about this suit?  What's
>the medical opinion of Herbalife products?  Is it really advantageous to
>use there products or is it just another health-food scam (ie, you'd be
>better off eating a balanced diet)?

CU just covered them a month or two ago.  The products which do anything are
laxatives which will, of course, cause temporary weight loss ...  I don't
remember the exact reference now, but I recall reading that Herbalife just
made a new milestone -- more deaths than the Cambridge Diet!

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc.
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