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Herbalife Expands Nutrition Advisory Board with Doctors in Europe and Argentina.


LOS ANGELES -- Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE NYSE

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), a global nutrition direct selling company, announced the addition of six doctors to its Nutrition Advisory Board (NAB).

The appointments of Drs. JuliEin Eulvarez GarcE a (Spain), Laszlo Halmy (Hungary), Patricio Kenny (Argentina), Nikolaos Sitaras (Greece), Pierre Zelissen (Netherlands) and Jean de la Tullaye (France) reflect the company's commitment to supporting its independent distributors more closely at both a regional and local level.

The NAB is made of leading experts around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who educate and train Herbalife independent distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle. The board is chaired by David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising.  (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
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).

Alicante-based Alvarez specializes in sports medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and  and physical education. Over the past 20 years he has advised a number of professional and Olympic sports teams in triathlons, mountain biking mountain biking Sports medicine A sport in which participants use specialized bicycles to navigate rough, steep trails covered with unforgiving rocks Injury risk Concussions, fractures, death. See Extreme sport, Novelty seeking behavior. , football and basketball. He currently manages sports medicine at the Mediterranean Clinic of Neurosciences.

Halmy is based in Budapest, Hungary where, in addition to his medical practice, he conducts scientific research into a number of different areas of human metabolism, including nutrition, obesity and hypertension. In 1995 he won the Hungarian Nutritional Society prize for his work on the short and long term effects of Herbalife meal replacements and multivitamin mul·ti·vi·ta·min
adj.
Containing many vitamins.

n.
A preparation containing many vitamins.


multivitamin 
 and mineral supplements, concluding that food supplementation plays a major role during a weight management program. He will assume the presidency of the 15th European Congress on Obesity in 2007.

In Argentina, Kenny is an adolescent and young adult gastroenterologist. He currently serves at the Buenos Aires British Hospital, as director of the Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Digestive and Nutritional Diseases. He is a faculty member at the Argentine Catholic University, serving as associate professor of pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children.

pe·di·at·ric
adj.
Of or relating to pediatrics.
 gastroenterology and nutrition.

Sitaras, based in Athens, Greece, is associate professor of the department of pharmacology at Athens Medical School. A practicing physician, author and lecturer with an interest in digestive disorders and nutrition, he has published extensively on the subject of nutrition and, since 2002, has focused on the effects of dietary supplements in healthy adults, 50 and older.

Zelissen, based in Utrecht, Holland, specializes in neuroendocrinology neuroendocrinology /neu·ro·en·do·cri·nol·o·gy/ (-en?do-kri-nol´ah-je) the study of the interactions of the nervous and endocrine systems.

neu·ro·en·do·cri·nol·o·gy
n.
 in obesity and has practiced in the department of endocrinology at Utrecht's University Medical Center for more than 20 years. He spent 15 years as medical advisor to the Dutch Society for Addison's and Cushing's Disease and is on the board of the Netherlands Association for the Study of Obesity.

Tullaye is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier History
The university is considerably older than its formal founding date, associated with a bull issued by Pope Nicholas IV in 1289, combining all the long-existing schools into a university.
 in France where he specializes in the teaching of nutrition, food and health. He is a member of various scientific committees associated with the Department of Agriculture and Food looking at subjects including food safety and quality and public research investment in nutrition.

About Herbalife

Herbalife (http://www.herbalife.com) is a global network marketing company that sells weight-management, nutritional supplements and personal care products intended to support a healthy lifestyle. Herbalife products are sold in 62 countries through a network of more than one million independent distributors. The company supports the Herbalife Family Foundation (http://www.herbalifefamily.org) and its Casa Herbalife program to bring good nutrition to children. Visit Investor Relations (http://ir.herbalife.com) for additional financial information.

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