Happy New Year 2014

Have a safe, Happy & Healthiest of New Years in 2014 and Thank you for reading my blog!!! 

The number 1 New Years Resolution (probably every year) is to get healthier, lose weight, exercise, etc. This can be your LAST year to have to resolve to lose weight! Shaklee can help you lose the weight and keep it off - I know - it's been 7 years for me!!! Here is my story at 5 years. Check out our new 180 flavors and new kit and get started TODAY!! You will never have to make another new years resolution to lose weight again and that is SO FREEING!!! Please share this with your friends and family and let me help you and them - it's so fun to lose weight and then share and help others to do the same!!

And, to help you with that, Shaklee just introduced a great new incentive, FREE Shipping for a YEAR, expires January 2014!!!

I invite you to listen to our 2014 North American Broadcast as well. If you are interested in better health, weight loss, making money, changing lives, giving back, and/or helping others, this is for you. You probably vowed to change something in your life this year, why not see what we have for you?!

NEW flavors and NEW 180 kit!!!!

YAY, we have some new 180 flavors, Mango Smoothees, White Chocolate Cinnamon Meal Bars, and, cherry almond & chocolate coconut snack bars!!!! I am so excited and cannot wait to try these!

 
Also, for those wanting to just drink 2 smoothees a day to lose a quick 5-10# or to get on track to get healthier, we have a brand new 180 kit with 4 smoothees canisters of your choice of flavors! That's about a $15 savings over purchasing separately (at member price)! 

You can get 3 for free with this kit as well! What does that mean? Order 1, get three friends to join you, and get your next kit free! Your friends can do this, too, and, every month that they continue to order, you get yours free and so will they if they have their 3 friends who order!

Get healthier and get it free - what's not to like?!

Ask me about our Facebook contest where you can win a 180 kit or an iphone 5s! Contest ends 1/26/14. #MakeItStick!

Understanding the Latest Media Attention on Multivitamins

Dear Shaklee Family,

Many of you have probably seen the headlines regarding multivitamins and their inability to prevent chronic disease in the past few days - the result of three studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Starting from a 30,000-foot view, the premise of these studies is the first problem: looking at the use of a multivitamin alone as a way to prevent disease. The purpose of a multivitamin is to fill in nutritional gaps and provide optimum levels of vitamins and minerals. It is well established that the vast majority of Americans fail to obtain even adequate levels of these nutrients.

Prevention of any disease is a multi-factorial process that has to include diet, weight management, and lifestyle. To expect to see disease prevention accomplished by virtue of taking a daily multivitamin is a flawed premise. So, why are these large-scale (and very expensive) studies undertaken? It is simply the model of research that scientists and physicians understand - studying a single drug to determine what effect it may have on a single disease. Studying nutrition is far more complex.

While a drug has a primary effect (usually something positive), they also have a myriad of side effects (which are usually negative and even life threatening). Every year pharmaceuticals are removed from the market because of these serious side effects. A study published in JAMA in 1998 showed that as many as 125,000 Americans die each year of properly prescribed pharmaceuticals - wow! When was the last time a vitamin was removed from the market?

Vitamins and minerals all have multiple positive functional roles to play in our bodies - which is why so many Americans pop a multi each day. People simply feel better when they take a multi because they are filling in those all too common nutrition gaps.

All three of these studies showed that multivitamins have an excellent safety profile. Well, of course they do - they are essential for life! The only “potential harm” that continues to be mentioned every time we have a study such as this published is the slight increased risk of lung cancer in smokers who took beta carotene . My response to that is - smokers: stop smoking!

Let me quickly summarize these studies. The largest one is another report from the Physician Health Study - previous publications of data from this large government funded study did show an association of reduced cancer associated with multivitamin usage.

The next study looked at cognitive decline in physicians - who are at the upper end of the intelligence scale and pretty well nourished. Showing a significant change in cognitive decline in this population is going to take some intervention beyond a multi - as this population is most likely doing lots of the right things to protect their brain function.

The third study tried to show that higher doses of specific vitamins decrease the likelihood of a second heart attack in folks who have already had a heart attack. Hmmm. Maybe we should look at weight reduction, cholesterol, blood pressure lowering, and blood sugar management as opposed to putting the burden of prevention of a second heart attack in someone with heart disease on vitamins!

I have been recommending a multivitamin (and beyond) to my patients, and consumers in general, for my entire 30 years as a physician - and nothing in these studies changes my mind. The statistics on inadequacies in our American diet are clear - most everyone is deficient in multiple nutrients. Here at Shaklee, we have the Landmark Study, published in the journal Nutrition in 2007 that showed a nice correlation of better health with multiple supplement usage, starting with a multivitamin. We have over 100 published studies that validate the connection of nutrition and health. I urge you to continue taking your Shaklee supplements - but also, to remember the importance of eating healthfully, avoiding fast foods, and getting to a healthy weight on your journey to better health.

Be well!

Dr. Jamie McManus, MD, FAAFP
Chair of Medical Affairs, Health Sciences and Education for Shaklee Corporation

FREE* Shipping Through Dec. 11th!

If you are new to Shaklee and/or need help with this, please just ask me and I will help you through the process! You may leave a message here or contact me through my website. Please share! Thank you.

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Take advantage of FREE shipping* (up to $20) when you place an online or mobile order of $200 or more and we'll throw in a Box of Assorted Shaklee 180™ Energizing Smoothee Packets or a Shaklee 180 Vanilla Smoothee – up to a $50 value -- while supplies last. Offer ends December 11

Promotion Details

1. Offer available from Monday, December 2, 2013 through Wednesday, December 11, 2013.
2. Eligible orders include online orders and guest orders.
3. Offer does not include Autoship orders or orders placed through SBOSS.
4. New join orders will receive the Free Shipping Credit, even if they begin as an Autoship.
5. Gold PAKs and drop shipments are eligible.
6. Shipping and handling credit up to $20. Standard shipping and handling on most Shaklee product orders is $8.99.
7. If calculated shipping and handling on the order is less than $20, shipping and handling will be free. If calculated shipping and handling is greater than $20, then the credit will be applied first and the remaining shipping and handling charges will be shared, if applicable, between the upline and the downline.
8. Order must be $200 to qualify. This means $200 order total at price tier of order before shipping and handling and taxes are applied.
9. This offer does not apply to orders placed through the Call Center, the Shaklee Los Angeles Sales and Training Center, or SBOSS.
10. Applies to standard shipping only, not expedited service.
11. No limit to the number of orders a customer, Member, Distributor, or Associate may place.
12. Free box of Shaklee 180 Smoothee Mix in assorted flavors while supplies last.

15 Day 180 Jump Start Challenge!

Must order by Mon. (12/02) or Tues. (12/03) for products to arrive by Dec. 6.

 Start with your choice of flavors - 2 canisters of 180 Smoothees for the 15 day challenge.

 

Then, you may order a 180 kit, or more individual products, if you want to continue your healthy journey right through the holidays, and/or after Christmas and New Years. From now through January 31, 2014, new Members, Distributors and Specialists who join with a Shaklee 180™ Kit or PAK and complete three consecutive months of AutoShip (including their join month) will be rewarded with up to $100 of free Shaklee products!*

*contact me for more details