For sauce:

Prepare marinade. Place chicken breasts in a large resealable plastic bag and cover with marinade. Seal bag and place in refrigerator for at least eight hours. Combine sauce ingredients in a small bowl, stir well, cover and refrigerate. Grill or broil chicken until cooked through. Thinly slice cooked chicken breasts diagonally into strips. Serve chicken with sauce on the side and garnish with shredded cabbage and chopped tomato.

• 4 slices cooked turkey bacon (chopped) 1 pinch black pepper 1 ½ c. thinly sliced sweet onion 1 pinch ground nutmeg 6 large egg whites and 1 yolk lightly beaten 4 c. shredded spinach
• 1 oz. shredded low fat mozzarella

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine eggs, bacon, pepper and nutmeg in bowl and set aside. Add onion to skillet coated with cooking spray, saute until lightly browned. Add spinach, cover and cook 2 minutes. Add egg mixture, cook over medium-low heat until eggs are almost set. Cover handle of pan with foil (to avoid melting) and bake in oven for 5 minutes. Remove, sprinkle with cheese and return to oven until cheese melts.

• 20 dehydrated sun-dried tomatoes (not packed in oil) ½ c. boiling water Cooking spray 1 lb. medium shrimp (peeled and deveined) ½ c. chopped green onion 3 tbs. fresh lemon juice 1 tbs. olive oil ¾ tsp. dried Italian seasoning ¼ tsp. black pepper 16 small pitted black olives 1 minced garlic clove
• ½ c. shredded parmesan cheese

Combine sun-dried tomatoes and boiling water in a bowl. Cover and let stand 30 minutes to rehydrate, then drain. Slice thinly and set aside. Place a nonstick cooking pan over high heat, spray with cooking spray, add shrimp and green onions and saute for five minutes. Add sun-dried tomatoes and all other ingredients except the parmesan cheese. Cook 1 to 2 minutes until heated through, sprinkle with cheese and serve hot.

• 2 tbs. Dijon mustard ½ tsp. black pepper 2 tsp. chopped fresh rosemary 1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
• 1 (1 lb.) boneless pork tenderloin

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place tenderloin in shallow baking pan coated with cooking spray. Combine all ingredients and brush over tenderloin. Bake for 50 minutes or until meat thermometer registers an internal temperature of 160 degrees. Garnish with fresh herbs.

Why know your BMI?
As you set personal goals on the way to changing how you look and feel, your BMI can serve as an accurate indicator of overall well-being. A high BMI can be associated with serious health risks including

• obesity
• heart disease
• diabetes
• cancer

What your results mean
Your BMI provides a helpful guideline for achieving the weight range that's healthiest for you. Using your BMI results, explore your personal path to healthier living with the help of Herbalife.  Herbalife is dedicated to helping people change their lives, both through powerful support and good nutrition made simple!

You can interpret your BMI results as follows:

RESULT
Below 20 slender-lean
20 to 25   ideal weight range
25 to 30  overweight (25 - 27 could be healthy range if large-boned and heavily muscled)
30+         very overweight / high risk
40+         significantly overweight / high risk for health complications

It seems everywhere we look, someone is promoting a new diet that praises the power of protein. But whether you want to lose, gain, or maintain your current weight, the importance of protein goes far beyond physical appearance and muscle building.

A necessity for every body
Protein is an important component of every cell in the body. It is an organic compound, composed of 22 amino acids, otherwise known as the building blocks of life. Protein is stored in muscles and organs and the body utilizes it to build and repair tissues, as well as for the production of enzymes and hormones. Proteins also make it possible for blood to carry oxygen throughout the body. Along with fat and carbohydrates, protein is a "macronutrient," meaning the body needs relatively large amounts of it. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that our daily protein requirements should be 10% to 35% of our total caloric intake, with men needing slightly more than women. A lack of protein can cause loss of muscle mass, decreased immunity, as well as weakening of the heart and respiratory system.

How protein affects your weight
The widespread popularity of high-protein diets is due in large part to their ability to help manage hunger. When protein is absorbed, it sends a signal to the brain to decrease your hunger. Another benefit of protein is that it raises your resting metabolism by maintaining muscle mass. As we age, muscle mass decreases without exercise, so staying fit is a key to burning fat by keeping your metabolism high. Protein also leads to a much less rapid rise and fall of blood sugar and insulin, so you avoid the "sugar highs and lows" after eating sweets without adequate protein. Certain foods, however, provide a healthier resource for protein than others.

Consider the source
You can obtain healthy sources of protein without high levels of saturated fat. For example, soybeans, nuts and whole grains provide protein without much saturated fat and offer plenty of healthful fiber and micronutrients as well. If you’re looking for yet another great way to obtain healthy protein, vegetable sources of protein found in Herbalife’s Formula 1, are high-quality and have lower calorie levels with virtually no added fat. Herbalife® products personalize your daily protein intake to match your body’s needs. With a variety of shakes and snacks, the ShapeWorks® program helps you build or maintain lean muscle while providing healthy weight management support.

Now that you’ve increased your knowledge of protein, you can effectively enhance your diet and allow good health to take shape.

Stopping the epidemic
Choose to set the example of picking up an apple instead of an ice-cream bar. Stop smoking. Turn off the television or computer and shoot some hoops with your children or go for a walk. Be sure to take your dog so you won’t have a fat dog at risk for diabetes and heart disease–yes, they develop the same diseases as humans! Let’s make the 21st century the century of wellness, family values and quality of life. Let’s start today.

With holiday season at hand, many people will soon be looking for help losing a few extra pounds. Below, Dr. David Heber answers questions about losing weight.

Q: How does protein help someone lose fat tissue instead of lean tissue?
A: By eating enough protein to maintain your lean tissue while losing fat, you keep your metabolism revved up. Every pound of lean tissue burns 14 calories per day compared to only about three calories burned for each pound of fat per day. So keeping the lean and losing the fat helps you burn more calories at rest. This is also called the resting metabolic rate or metabolism for short.

Q: How does metabolism influence weight-loss?
A: Whenever you eat more calories than you burn through exercise and through your metabolism at rest, you will store the extra as fat. So having a higher metabolism can help you maintain your weight by balancing calories in and calories out. Exercises that strengthen your muscles improve your ability to burn calories at rest.

Q: What are the benefits of plant-based protein, or soy?
A: Soy protein naturally has a different composition than animal proteins that makes it healthier for your blood vessels, bones and kidneys than animal protein. Soy protein also has isoflavones, which together with soy protein as found in Formula 1, has an FDA-approved heart-health claim. That is why you see a heart on the label.

Getting fat on fat-free
Since the beginning of the “fat-free craze,” statistics show Americans have grown fatter and fatter. Although we’ve been taught to think of fat as the culprit in the weight-loss battle, clearly this is only part of the whole diet picture. Just because a food is fat-free doesn’t mean it’s calorie-free. Many fat-free foods are actually very high in sugar and carbohydrate calories. And these calories, when eaten in excess, become converted into the one thing we’ve been taught to avoid–fat!

Lose the fat from your body, not your diet
Ironically, in order to burn fat and lose weight you need a certain amount of good quality fat. That’s why the ShapeWorks™ Weight-Management Program stresses the importance of a well-balanced diet that includes enough “good fats,” such as those found in fish and olive oil, together with Herbalife’s highly nutritious meal replacement shakes and snacks.

By avoiding the fat-free craze and giving your body the complete nourishment it needs with Herbalife’s Cellular Nutrition® supplements and weight-management products, you’ll lose weight steadily and feel healthier as you do.

Rev Up Your Body’s Engine
We eat food for fuel. When we burn it for energy to run our bodies, the process creates heat. Our ShapeWorks™ products assist the body’s engine to burn fuel efficiently, helping our metabolism stay revved and functioning well.

Daily Regimen Tips
Keep your metabolism revved with these tips:

• Engage in 30 minutes of activity every day to help minimize weight gain and to raise metabolic rate.
• Tone your muscles by weight training three days a week. Start small–try walking with one- to two-pound weights.
• Do not eat fewer than 1,200 calories a day. Eating too little may slow your metabolism.
• Never skip breakfast. It may slow down your metabolism.
• Use Herbalife products every day including Total Control and Herbal Concentrate.
• Have a supply of Herbalife's products on hand and reach for these when you want a snack. Enjoy Protein Bars, Roasted Soy Nuts with Cardia® Salt, Soup Mix and Drink Mix.

Overweight linked with premature death
In January 2003, the Journal of the American Medical Association featured a study that found that obesity appears to lessen life expectancy, especially among young adults. The researchers compared Body-Mass Index (BMI) to longevity and found a correlation between premature death and higher BMIs. For example, a 20-year-old white male, 5’10” weighing 288 pounds with a BMI of greater than 40 was estimated to lose 13 years of his life as a result of obesity. While this study referenced extreme levels of obesity, there are still millions of overweight Americans with a life expectancy rate that is three to five years less than their healthy-weight counterparts.

Herbalife for long-term health
Herbalife has helped millions of Americans take control of their eating. Our products can help just about anyone who is overweight lower their calorie intake and improve their nutrition. In addition, Herbalife’s Distributor force provides the day-to-day support people need to change their eating habits, incorporate Formula 1 Nutritional Shake Mix into their daily routine and develop the confidence they need to lose weight and enjoy total wellness. We have the programs people need to reverse the overweight trend–and to help them gain control in the “battle of the bulge.” Without it, we are losing years off our lives.