CHILDREN & HERBALIFE Herbalife is safe for all ages. We have had fabulous weight loss & health results with children on the Herbalife products. Not only is it a quick, fun and easy way of making sure your child is getting all the nutrition they need, it is also helping a lot of parents find solutions to problems they are having with their children - read stories below. Please note - Herbalife products are not medication, but food. They have been designed by a team of the world’s top Medical Doctors / Scientists and are safe for everyone to use, as the product labels do not contain any warnings whatsoever. Good nutrition is the starting point for any health program, because, without an adequate intake of essential nutrients, the body cannot repair itself physically, and the mind cannot properly function psychologically or emotionally.   My son, Jody O’Connor is 13 years old. He is a normal young teenager with few problems. This was not always so. From the time that Jody was born he was difficult. He slept very little and most of the time he just screamed and screamed. We put him on one drug after another. If fact I think he must be one of the few babies to be rejected at 3 crèches because of them being unable to control him. We were told that he was hyperactive and the problem would correct itself when he went to school. BIG MISTAKE!! Jody struggled from the day he started school. He was always in trouble and his marks were very bad. At the end of 1996 we had him tested at a Child Psychologist and he was diagnosed with ADHD. (Attention Deficit – Hyperactive Disorder) and he was prescribed 10kg medication which had adverse effects and Jody did not improve much at all. We then sent him for psychological therapy, also without any real benefit that we could see. We started 1998 with trepidation as Jody was now in Grade 4 and two years behind his peers with no guarantee for the future. At the end of the 2nd term we removed Jody from a mainstream school and placed him in a school catering to the needs of ADHD children. His initial assessment placed him into Grade 5. He was still taking medicaton twice daily, which has its own problems; loss of appetite -never eating breakfast and only eating the first time at 3pm each day, lowered resistance, mood swings and terrible headaches (including migraines). In July 1998 we were introduced to Herbalife and its range of incredible products. We started taking the Protein Drink and Fibre & Herb tablets, and of course, Jody did too. The first thing that we were delighted about was that Jody was now having a meal each morning and his weight started increasing. We then started giving him NRG in his shake each mornin and Rose-Ox. (an anti-oxidant to help eliminate all the build-up of toxins in his body). We started seeing a slight difference but still the headaches continued. At the end of 1998, Jody was promoted to Grade 7 having skipped Grade 6 altogether. Well the results were outstanding. All him marks doubled. Even the school wanted to know what we were doing differently. We are overjoyed and we thank Mark Hughes and Herbalife for making such a wonderful product available to us. George & Pam Webber     Barry and Marinda Our daughter Marilize, is 8 years and hade concentration problems etc etc.The School advised us last year 1999 that various problems are busy surfacing .It cost us a fortune with various doctors everyone had a different perception, everyone prescribed  Ritalin etc .It was recommended at one stage that we place her in a special School on the East Rand to which I objected .We attended a Herbalife Function at Sun City and while listening to all testimonies of other people we decided to put her on NRG AND THE SHAKE. THE RESULTS AFTER TWO DAYS WAS AS FOLLOW: 1.She stopped crying about everything & you could  start reasoning with her 2.She started going to bed on her own at night ,not sleeping on family room floor while watching TV. 3.No more fighting with her sisters  4.No more fights getting her to school 5.Her headaches stopped 6.No more fights in supermarkets you could reason with her We monitored her re action's she became more and more confident in going to school. No fights anymore when dropping her at school in the morning " many a day we had to return her  home ".She had more interest in her home work daily .My wife could reason more and more with her on home work problems . This year the most wonderful thing happened one morning .with morning prayer she got up went to her bedroom and returned with the HOLY BIBLE. She insisted that she want's to read which she did to our surprise . Ever since she just go from strength to strength. Marilize is not yet over her problem but the improvement since we started giving her NRG and Shake is tremendous. Her School work improved a lot. Reading ,spelling ,math's etc WE  THANK OUR HEAVENLY FATHER FOR THE IMPROVEMENT Thank you HERBALIFE FOR THE PRODUCT'S.     Fran de Villier’s Family Results My name is Fran de Villiers, and I have been on the products for a little more than a year.  I have lost 12kg and has kept it of for nearly a year now.  My husband has suffered from high blood pressure, and his feet was swollen. He has lost 9kg and his blood pressure has normalised and his swelling has completely disappeared. But my best story is about my two sons.  They are both clever, but did not achieve the marks they ought to, because they never wanted to learn, or it was just too much effort to do anything. I first started my youngest son, David on NRG, because he came home with a history class assignment for which he got 17%.  Just too much effort to finish it, or he dreamed in class!  Since he started on NRG his average has increased from 71% to 81%, and at the and of last year (Gr. 7), he had 83% average.  He was SO proud of himself!  He has changed completely, and is a much easier child to live with, as he always was very negative.  This has changed a lot. My eldest son, Francois, then said he also wanted NRG, as he did not do too well in his first term in Gr.10.  Since he started using NRG, his average has also increased with 10%, and he has received his academic colours for the 3rd year last year.  He says he can immediately see the change in his handwriting when he has drunk NRG. I give them only half a teaspoon as a tea in the morning after breakfast, and sometimes after school, they ask for it, when they know they have lots of homework, or are writing a test. My children really believe in our products, especially NRG, as they realised that it changed them for the better!     Marina Taute’s Pregnancy. I was pregnant on the product and had remarkable results. My doctor was Dr. Brummer in Bloemfontein and it was the same doctor that treated Vanessa Bourne when she was pregnant. I used all the products in abundance especially the VMH it helped me a lot with water retention. I gained only 8kg in my pregnancy and lost the 8 plus 6 by the time my baby was 6 weeks old. He was born 10 day early because I could not carry him anymore he weighed 4.370 kg at birth.   Shelly’s story My 10 year old son Zac has had several different diagnosis'  in his young life. We tried all sorts of medicaton & he had some horrible reactions.  It has been a non-stop, ongoing heartache trying to help this child. We have never been able to enjoy him for just being who he is..our boy. We've been so wrapped up in "finding answers", we've missed the "wonder years". That is so so sad to me. We had a beautiful 10 year old boy who supposedly was Autistic, Epileptic, ADHD, OCD, with Tourette's. It looked like we were facing a life of one medication after the next, with the doctors doing nothing but prescribing new drugs. Well, in the meantime, my sister happened to have been on the Herbalife products for 4 months and had lost 40 pounds. Myself, having had given up on weight-loss long ago (figuring after everything I'd tried and failed at, it was my destiny to be obese) had no intention of listening to her rave about yet another "miracle weight-loss plan". So, my mother gets in my van one day and says HERE! WE"RE LISTENING TO THIS!. She pops in a tape with all these child testimonies about NRG.  We did NRG for 6 weeks with no improvement. I never felt more discouraged. From there I went to work... I pretty much lived at the library and c read everything I could get my hands on about herbs and alternative methods of treatment. I made a list of symptoms that I wanted to improve with Zac, then went after the herbs that dealt with those issues. I saw where I could find those specific herbs in the Herbalife products and started a plan of action. The second month it wowed me. We did the same plan but he was now free of medication. He slept like a baby. The dark circles that were always a part of his face were visibly lighter. He was eating like a teenager. These things were huge to us. It was great. 3rd month we added Tang Kuei, Tics decreased dramatically, he had gained 9 pounds.(still 10 underweight). 4th month we introduced Rose Ox. His teacher and principal were amazed at the improvement. The attention and focus was right on track and he was making social strides every day. He is now able to be involved in team sports and absolutley loves it! As I write this he is at a sleepover. (An unheard of thing in the past) He went with his pack on a 5 day cub scout camping trip (alone!) and took his herbs with him (proudly!) I made the "shake bar" recipe so he didnt have to deal with mixing his shakes. He has now caught up the 20 pounds that he was lacking and has shot up 3 inches.  (Ritalin stunts growth) He has not "ticked" in over 2 months and for all intents and purposes is enjoying a normal healthy childhood. The biggest thing I think is that I've been reaquainted with my boy. I forgot what his true personality was. The cute little things about him that were masked by drugs. Now I'm reminded of the little boy before medication. The little boy who was lost, that Herbalife helped me find again. I will always and forever be eternally grateful for these products. I thank God every day for this. I know Zac does too. The good things dont stop there either.I have since lost 54 of the impossible pounds that I thought would torture me forever. I need to be rid of 40 more, but I know I'm doing it this time. I'm looking forward to every new day of my Herbalife life. Zac is too. He cant wait till he's old enough to become a distributor himself. He actually wrote up his own flyers on the computer. It says..Herbalife has changed my life, it can change yours too. You only have one chance so protect it! I thought those were powerful words for a 10 year old. This is not just a weight loss program...It goes WAY deeper than that. We're proof positive of that! What a blessing!!     David Benfield (wouldn’t it have been great for him if he had found a solution since childhood) Not only was I growing more allergic to everything as I aged, I’m 47 and had asthma from childhood – to the extent that I developed a “pigeon chest” – a chest bone that stands out a little from struggling to breathe through Asthma attacks as a child before inhalers. As an adult I always had 2 Asthma pumps handy. One next to my bed and one in my car. I would turn around wherever I was if it was not in the car. I moved from Jhb to Cape Town 3 years ago and it improved and I only used to inhale about 1-2 doses a day. Dosage is normally 2 sprays a time but I reduced it to one at a time so was using in the region of around 30-60 sprays a month. All I can tell you is that I began using the maintenance programme of one shake a day, the fibre and herb tablets, Lipobond (just for one month), thermojetics tea, average of once a day and slowly over the second and third months began adding the NRG, VHM, Rose Ox and Aloe juice. I’ve been using Herbalife for about 7 months and from the third month or so I realised that my allergies had gone and I was using my Asthma pump around 3 to 8 times a month. You’ll understand why I had to consider the fact that only one thing had changed in my life. I was on the Herbalife programme. I didn’t expect this and I wasn’t looking for it to happen. All I know is that it did. It can be called psychosomatic relief, I don’t care. This argument is invalid for me   Please note - Herbalife products are not medication, but food. They have been designed by a team of the world’s top Medical Doctors / Scientists and are safe for everyone to use, as the product labels do not contain any warnings whatsoever. Good nutrition is the starting point for any health program, because, without an adequate intake of essential nutrients, the body cannot repair itself physically, and the mind cannot properly function psychologically or emotionally.