What is the Herbalife Diet?
The Herbalife Diet is an easy but costly diet mainly consisting of supplements and one well balanced meal a day. It is a diet whose goal is profit but people can achieve fairly good results on it, except that it may come at an expense to their health. Some of the Herbalife supplements contain sida cordifolia, which is part of the ephedrine alkaloids family.

What is the scheduled meal plan for the Herbalife Diet?
Breakfast: Take a Herbalife shake, 2 activator capsules and a multivitamin.
Lunch: Take another Herbalife shake, 2 activator capsules and a multivitamin.
Dinner: A well balanced meal, 2 activator capsules and a multivitamin.

What are the pros to the Herbalife Diet?
1. Easy to follow instructions
2. Easy to use shakes and meal replacements

What are the cons to the Herbalife Diet?
1. The herbalife diet is extremely expensive.
2. Weight loss may be as a result of calorie loss without a build in muscle mass to keep the pounds off once you go off the supplements.
3. Ephedrine has been shown to have VERY NEGATIVE EFFECTS and has even caused death in some people.
4. Ephedrine will cause you to build up a drug tolerance. In other words, the dosage that works for you at the beginning will not be enough to cause the same desired effects down the road.
5. There are not nearly enough calories in the diet to increase your immune system or build muscle mass.

Conclusion to the Herbalife Diet
This diet should NOT BE FOLLOWED. It is dangerous and is not a lifestyle that can be maintained. Any weight loss will be followed by weight gain and withdrawal symptoms once the diet is removed. One of the more effective diets is the Medifast diet. Please see the link to the left.