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Give a gift of health for the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is around the corner and if you are thinking about getting good gifts to bring home for parents, relatives or friends, or just to show your appreciation to clients, why not consider the following instead of the usual unhealthy cookies and canned food.

Instead of ginseng, why not give a Nobel Prize product - Herbalife NW Formula (Niteworks). It helps with blood circulation and boosts cardiovascular health. It contains a proprietary blend of L-Arginine and L-Citrulline that help produce nitric oxide in the body and in turn, promote overall health and energy.

The NW Formula comes in powder form and is mixed into a glass of water and consumed before one goes to sleep. For the elderly, it seems to reduce aches and pains. This is one product that has to be experienced to know the difference.

With the current controversy over Birds’ Nest, why not purchase Herbalife Formula 1 - beverage of the 21^st Century, which has a lot more nutrients than Birds’ Nest. The nutrient-packed delicious shake helps meet the demanding needs of fast paced and stress filled modern day living for the young and active as well as the aged. It is fantastic for our elderly parents or relatives who may not be getting enough nutrients, who are weak or eat too little to be getting enough nutrients.

We may not be aware that our bodies experience much stress daily from multiple sources - pollution in the air, water and food. Our food may be filled with preservatives, additives, colouring, artificial seasoning, bad oil from fried food, excessive salt and sugar and animal fats.

The kidney and liver go through much stress when we consume alcohol excessively, while our lungs and stomachs take a heavy toll from tobacco.

Our bodies also go through more stress than usual when we suffer from medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, migrane, arthritis, allergies, infection, etc.

For these reasons, we need to consume adequate nutrients to enable us to have optimal health. Most Malaysians eat adequately only for survival but not enough for good health. How many of us consume 5 servings of fresh fruits/vegetables a day? I don’t know of any Malaysian who does that regularly. Moreover, our food, although delicious, are high in carbs and lacking in healthy protein.

The other must-have for this hot season is the Aloe Herbal Concentrate. You only need to mix 2 to 3 capfuls of the concentrate into a glass of water for a refreshing beverage that helps reduce heatiness, relieves stomach indigestion, gastric, constipation as well as diarrhea. The drink is full of enzymes that are good for the gut while it cleans the villi to enable better nutrient absorption.

The Herbalife teamix (Lemon & Hibiscus or Peach) is high in anti-oxidants and makes a nice tea drink for guests. It’s a healthier option than serving soft drinks. It is a mild detox, so you won’t feel much difference unless you have consumed too much fat.

The Omega 3 Fish Oil is useful for those with high cholesterol, arthritis or joint problems and those susceptible to infection.

Please let us know if you need any of these, even if you are living in another country.

Herbalife is the number one human nutrition company in the world and is available in 80 countries. It is listed also in the New York Stock Exchange.

Significant difference

A friend told us during a dinner get-together that her father’s cholesterol level had reduced from 7.5 mmol/L to 5.5 mmol/L after going on cellular nutrition for two months.

Another acquaintance shared that he used to suffer from 28 epileptic seizures a month despite being on medication, but since he started on cellular nutrition, the seizure had gone down to once a month. He was totally caught by surprise.

A mother who has a daughter born with allergies, started giving her a whole range of cellular nutrition when she first discover about cellular nutrition. The girl was six years old then. Initially, it was bad. The girl began to have more allergies but the mother kept giving it to her knowing that the cleansing effect was taking place. After six months of seriously taking the nutrition, her skin cleared up. She is now 12 years old and my husband and I could not believe that she had suffered severe allergies before. Her skin is so smooth. No one would have known that she had suffered much skin problems and scars before.

Those with allergic reaction should not worry but should persevere. Drinking a lot of water is a must during such a time. There are ways to reduce the allergic reaction. Just ask the coachJ . Those who had gone through the path will tell you that they reap sweet results after persevering through the “storm.”

I have been reading that people should just rely on natural food and forget about supplements if they are healthy. An article in an English newspaper I read mentioned that the extra money should be spent on fruits and vegetables. While I agree that people should consume more raw vegetables and fruits, how many Malaysians do that? By that, I mean 5 servings a day as recommended by dieticians? I have not come across a Malaysian who does that on a daily basis. I find it difficult to achieve that myself. A pathetic bowl of salad already cost RM8-RM12. While I do eat that whenever I can find healthy and fresh salads (those without brown marks on veges) and occasionally prepare it myself or eat ulam, it is not consistent while I can’t keep up with the cost of eating salads at every meal outside. For this reason, I supplement. And I don’t go for any supplements but cellular nutrition.

 Moreover, how much nutrition do we get in the food we eat today with monoculture farming system while filled with chemical fertilizer and pesticides? With fried and processed food, we continuously put potential cancer causing substance in our bodies. Cellular nutrition helps cleanse the body in a healthy way while nourishing it effectively. It feeds every microcells in the body. For this reason, it will benefit diabetics as well.

For this reason, I believe in a balance – have natural food as much as possible and complement it with cellular nutrition. This will definitely boost our immune system.

How much protein do we need?

Check out:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/312/how-much-protein-do-you-really-need.html

Uma Won!

John and I are really thrilled that Uma has won the first prize of RM1,500 for the Slim and Win contest. We are very impressed with his diligence in adhering to all the advice we have given him.

Of all the people we have coached, Uma’s level of discipline in taking his shake, aloe and teamix daily, as well as following our other advice was unbeatable.

We are very proud of him. We guided him on some basic nutrition as well. Yes, change is slow, so we encourage him to make better choices with his food. We often remind him that he must get his weight down because his weight is taking a toll on his organs. He may be healthy now while he is young, but no one will know when the time bomb will set off.

He lost 10.7kg from the time he came in for the first weigh-in on July 13. Yesterday was the finals. He lost from 102kg to 91.3kg. He looks much trimmer and his skin so good that his girlfriend, Yugnes, is envious:).

Uma was also the first prize winner of the first stage of the Slim and Win contest. During this second weigh-in, he lost a total of 5.7kg within a week, from 102kg to 96.3kg. Uma won RM200 and a bottle of Herbal Aloe concentrate worth RM165.24. The Aloe concentrate helps to clean up the villi in our small intestines and optimise nutrient absorption. It is also very good for improving bowel movement.

We are very proud of his achievement and happy for him, not only because he has won the prize, but that he has taken a serious step towards better health. He followed our advice closely on how to lose weight safely and effectively.

Congratulations Uma! We hope he will continue with the good results until he lose at least another 10kg.

More later...

Much awaited Nobel Prize NiteWorks is here

THE NW Formula or NiteWorks as it is known in other countries will soon arrive at our shore and will be launched on August 6, 2011.

It contains a proprietary blend of L-Arginine and L-Citrulline that help produce nitric oxide in the body and in turn, promote overall health and energy.

The NW Formula comes in powder form and is mixed into a glass of water and consume before one goes to sleep. This is one product that every Herbalife user or anyone who wants to enhance their health, must experience to know the difference and not just read or hear about it.

For John, he says that the severity of his sinus attack reduced significantly when he was taking it for a month.

For me, I totally did not have any symptoms at all on the joints in my fingers. Although the other products have helped reduced pain in my joints, there were still the occasional mild symptoms whenever I eat the wrong food.

Apparently, people who have taken it say that they sleep better at night.

We did not manage to take more than a can since early this year because we had only bought one from Singapore to try it out. Now we can’t wait to get our supplies.

In 1998, Dr Louis Ignarro and two other scientists received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries relating to nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.

During a training session in Bangkok in May 2011, Dr Ignarro says that nitric oxide is the most important substance in the body that protects us from cardio vascular diseases. It helps make the heart and blood vessels healthy and it helps prevent the clotting of blood which can lead to stroke and heart failure.

Dr Ignarro says that it helps widen the blood vessels and improve blood flow and also reduces the pains and aches in the body.

This is particularly useful for those 30 years old and older and those whose blood vessels are no longer as supple and those who have reached menopause, because women at that stage of life have a higher risk of getting heart attack (as wells as suffer from osteoporosis as age catches on)

It will also benefit diabetics and any other cardiovascular related diseases.

Dr Ignarro says that nitric oxide levels in the body begins to dwindle after age 30.

And if we are overweight even by as little as 5kg at any age, our body goes through oxidative stress which results in destruction of nitric oxide, he says.

Dr Ignarro says that more recent studies show that nitric oxide is also used by the brain to improve learning, memory and information recall.

He also encourages people to eat fruits and raw vegetables as much as they can throughout the day for this helps increase nitric oxide.

“If you can exercise one hour a day, you probably don’t need NiteWorks,” he says.

However, we may not be as diligent in doing these things consistently and adequately as a result of our busy lives, hence, the need for supplements, he says.

“So I take my NiteWorks all the time,” he says.

When we eat unhealthily, it also creates oxidative stress to the body, he says.

Dr Ignarro says that when we exercise, our body makes more nitric oxide but the exercise have to one that can pump the heart (aerobics) and should be done 4 to 5 days a week.

“Walking is not good enough. You need to get your heart rate up to 80% of your maximum heart rate.

“And you need to sweat. If you are not sweating, you are not exercising,” he says.

Dr Ignarro's discovery has gone through 35 years of research. Although he admits that the product has not gone through extensive clinical trials, it is based on excellent science. After all, he was awarded the Nobel Prize. There must surely be a concrete amount of science that goes into it, otherwise, why was he given the recognition?

To put it in perspective, supplements do not need to go through clinical trials, only drugs do, but they need to adhere to the safety aspect. 
Nevertheless, I hope that one day, Herbalife will carry out clinical trials to prove critics wrong. After all, there are many of us to take it for long term. I won't mind volunteering myself for the free supplements:)

 

Watch Dr Ignarro on YouTube:

Part1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biDNwRHgAuc&playnext=1&list=PL4C5C8CD6FD81AF56

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfBA4IsZeds&playnext=1&list=PL4C5C8CD6FD81AF56

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaa072hofFw&playnext=1&list=PL4C5C8CD6FD81AF56

See also: Health is Wealth YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/healthiswealthtube?blend=24&ob=5#p/u/2/Qg8Q_H_uuyI